A real view from No Problem. For years I've been taking photos of buoys all along the run from SD 1 to ..... well I'm not sure how far the numbers go up. SD 1 is out in the ocean and marks the shipping channel to go into San Diego Bay. It's several miles out in the Pacific and starts the point at which a large ship must then review both port and starboard buoys in order to stay in the middle of the channel and therefore not run aground. This is generally not a problem for our boat since it only has a draft of 6 feet to the bottom of the keel. There's a couple of places we could get into trouble, all out of the channel which they keep dredged to 30 feet or so. We did in fact get into a spot of trouble out near this buoy which is on the other side of the Coronado Bridge, by not paying close attention to our depth guage one afternoon when the sailing was fine - just fine. It was a magnificent day. We managed to motor off this slight rise in the floor of the bay to our favorite anchorage off Glorietta Bay but I must say it is scary to just stop like that with water all around.
This image, which started life as a photo I took with my phone, was imported into a new program I downloaded from that vast resource called the internet and is called ArtRage. It is my first effort using a photo as a base and painting over it. Oh my, am I going to be wasting, ah, spending hours in that program. I downloaded the freeware which is short of some abilities such as saving files in usable formats but the Mac can overcome these little problems thankfully, thus enabling me to share this image.
I am so wanting to spend some more time on the boat.....
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