We made a couple trips to Mission Bay. It is about 13 nautical miles and an easy trip from San Diego Bay. Both times we anchored in Mariner’s Basin. This was a great chance to take some photos of Kosmos at anchor.
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You can anchor in Mariner’s Basin for 72 hours every 7 days. It is a very calm and protected anchorage. In fact, it is so flat that you forget you are on a boat. It is a super short dingy ride to shore where you are walking distance to the beach, the roller coaster, all kinds of shopping, and most importantly, lots of restaurants.
Our first visit to Mariner’s Basin was with our friend Tai, where we celebrated Eric’s birthday with some R&R and a sushi dinner on shore. On our second trip to the Mission Bay we were with 4 guests, one of whom was on holiday from Russia and one on holiday from England. It was quite the international affair with lots of interesting discussions about how things, especially perspectives, differ between the various countries.
We also were able to get pictures of one of our underwater active fin stabilizers. There is one on each side of the boat. They help reduce the boat from rolling, which makes for a much more comfortable ride:
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And so far so good. We will continue to venture out farther and farther from San Diego to get more experience.
Hi Eric and Chris,
thanks for the nice informations and pictures. I feel, that you both have a very nice time on your own boat.
I have some questions to you:
1. how high is the tide in your area?
2. what are the two lines and which function have the lines from the front (BB and StB) to the top of the mast?
3. You have very high (long) antenna, is this important? Here in Europe we dont have this long antenna on a boat.
4. Pls can you repead your installed navigation program?
All the best,
Peter
1. Tide in San Diego varies by about 2.2 meters. This basin is man made, and has a rather steep drop. At low tide in this basin it is still 5.5 meters deep.
2. I believe you are refering to the steel wires that stabilize the deployed paravanes.
3. The SSB antenna needs to be 7.5 meters to work. Due to the paravanes the only place to put it was on top of the pilothouse. The VHF only needed to be 2-3 meters. We decided to make the antennas match in size and it gives extended range for our VHF.
4. For electronic charts we are using a Furuno 1943 radar/chartplotter with a C-MAP chart card. We intend to get various MaxSea modules to also run charts and radar on laptop computers. See the bottom of https://kosmos.liveflux.net/blog/our-boat/ for a list of the installed electronics. We would like to add a satellite compass, AIS, secondary radar, and wireless mic VHF.
Alright. sounds like a fun trip. I really am impressed by the looks of the boat in those pictures.
Ok I am so excited about our catalina trip. It is all the girls have talked about for the last week! I am all packed and ready to go once our babysitter gets here!