Hangin' with Barbara

Since I had a little down time, I thought you would want to see some of Santa Barbara Marina and aboard Joli' Elle, where I had been calling home for the last week or so. Santa Barbara seems to specialize in birds, I saw more species and quantity of birds in the Santa Barbara Marina than in any other marina I have been in. 

I was amused by these Night Herons that would perch on the edge of the dock, trying to decide which fish would be worth diving in the water for.

 

Night Heron perched on a sailboat.

The Beauty of Santa Barbara Marina seemed to be at every turn. I gathered together some pictures of the marina and surrounding area.

Bougainvillea vines and Palm Trees

The weather was perfect for walking on the breaker and sailing.

Joli’ Elle fit right in with the thousands of other boats in this marina, that's her with the blue kayak attached to here lifeline.

If you have been following the blog up to now, you have no doubt seen pictures of Joli' Elle's deck and the cockpit.  Let me take you below her decks for a quick little tour.

Aft Cabin

If you go to the back of the cockpit you will see that Joli’ Elle has what they call an aft cabin, this is the skippers quarters for the trip.  On this particular boat the aft cabin is separate from the rest of the cabin and can only be accessed from the back of the cockpit.

Main Cabin

Forward of the cockpit you walk down into the main cabin.  The first thing you see on your right is the navigation station. Past that you can see there is a galley on the left, that’s sailor speak for kitchen.  And a little deeper back past the galley is a closet for hanging clothes.

If you direct your attention to the left side, we have a combination dining room, living room, library, a/v entertainment room and, it also converts to a double bed.  Just past that well used space there is a head, a strange word  for what many of us call the bathroom, washroom, toilet, commode, privvie, lavatory, crapper, the facilities, latrine, loo, potty, the can and throne. Hmm, maybe calling it the head, isn’t any stranger than all the other names people use for the room that you do your business in.  I purposely omitted pictures of that room and and left it up to your imagination.

V-berth

At the very front of the boat there is a v-berth. Berth being the name of a bed on a boat and “v” coming from it’s shape that is dictated by the pointy part of the boat.  This is my room for the trip.  Now don’t be judging me for the mess in there, you should have seen it after hours of seas rolling the boat side to side.

Just as a side note my flip flops have taken on a funk and have been banished to the top side.

Bad Flip Flops

~J~