Karen flew back to Seattle for a few weeks and my dad flew in to join us for a few weeks.  We spent a couple days in Santa Barbara then sailed down the coast to Oxnard.  The 34 mile sail in 15-20 knot winds on a broad reach was great.  Oxnard is a gateway port to the Channel Islands and has lots of marinas and yacht clubs and beautiful weather.  We’re staying at the Pacific Corinthian Yacht Club as guest members.  We rented a 4-wheel bike and peddled to a grocery store to re-provision.  Jacintha rode in the front while dad and I peddled (we had to get out and push on a steep upgrade!).  The yacht club is very nice and has a pool so we decided to spend a few days here.

With the addition of an 80 year old,  the average age aboard Apropos just went from 29 to 46!

Update–Jacintha spent most of the day Sunday in the pool with a bunch of kids celebrating a birthday.  She even got invited to join them for cake, so she had a fantastic day.  We watched the Seahawk game at the club then went to the boat for dinner (Dad brought some sauerkraut and corn from his garden in Pennsylvania).

Jacintha’s blog:  Oxnard, CA.  Yippy, I jump into the pool then I swam around and saw a little girl with the same goggles.  After that I tried to stand on a noodle.  It was fun because it was hard to stand on the skinny noodle in the water.  Then the little girl noticed that we had the same goggles and we showed each other under water tricks.  After that we went to the hot tub and I made another friend.  After that a grownup who was at the party said cake time, then everyone except me ran over to get a slice of cake.  I did not go cause I was not invited.  After that my daddy came down, we sat in the edge of the hot tub until a grownup said we have extra cake so would you like some?  Yes I said.  So I went to sit down and eat cake.  Once I was done, I played war.   We had to throw things at each other.  Water was a force field.  You could use a boogie board for shields.  Then we fake sneezed and I pretended to swallow a beach ball and sneezed it out.  After that we put water in the hole of a noodle and blew.  I sat on a noodle and got dunked, then I went to the hot tub and saw my friend.