Saltydog from LA - Photo of Little Gem

[Saltydog]

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome (and the correction from RicM - I must have had Maine on the brain)! Attached is a photo of our 2007 Albin 28 TE Newport Edition with pilot house that we named "Little Gem" (hull # 927). She is powered by a 315HP Yanmar 6LPA-STP diesel, cruises at 16-18 knots and tops out at 22.5 knots. We keep her on a slip in Newport Harbor, in Orange County near Los Angeles CA, and have made several trips already to beautiful Avalon Harbor in Catalina Island (about 25 miles off shore). We're very happy to be new AOG members and still Swabbies, although just purchased our Tote Bag and hoping for a promotion soon! Looking forward to exchanging solutions to problems of mutual interest. Safe travels, Saltydog

[jcollins]

I do like the black hull. Once again, welcome aboard. Your tote bag is on the way.

[RicM]

FYI, there is a Portsmouth, NH and a Portsmouth ME as well. It's easy to understand how the mistake could happen!

[Mariner]

Just like there is a Newport, CA, a Newport, OR, and a Newport, WA.

[Expoguy]

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome (and the correction from RicM - I must have had Maine on the brain)! Attached is a photo of our 2007 Albin 28 TE Newport Edition with pilot house that we named "Little Gem" (hull # 927). She is powered by a 315HP Yanmar 6LPA-STP diesel, cruises at 16-18 knots and tops out at 22.5 knots. We keep her on a slip in Newport Harbor, in Orange County near Los Angeles CA, and have made several trips already to beautiful Avalon Harbor in Catalina Island (about 25 miles off shore). We're very happy to be new AOG members and still Swabbies, although just purchased our Tote Bag and hoping for a promotion soon! Looking forward to exchanging solutions to problems of mutual interest. Safe travels, Saltydog

I was wondering how long you owned your boat how well you liked it ?

[Ben423]

Welcome to the forum. It seems that the number of A28's in SoCal is on the rise. We spend a good deal of time at the Island and look forward to seeing you there this season.

[DesertAlbin736]

Nice boat!!!

Yes, Newport Beach CA. We stopped there once in 2012 on a harbor hop run from Chula Vista to San Pedro & thence to Catalina Island with our Catalina 25 sailboat. That was the last major cruise with that boat before we sold it the following year and got our Albin in 2014. Took a mooring overnight at the Balboa Yacht Club. Things were kind of messed up in the harbor that year, a lot of dredging going on. Of course they stuck us out on the funkiest, slimiest, gnarliest old mooring ball imaginable.

And yes Epoxyguy, we had also stopped at Dana Point both on the way up & on the way back to Chula Vista. Dana was one of our favorite stops. In fact on the return from Avalon we sailed straight to Dana, then to Oceanside, and after spending a night in Oceanside made it all the way back to Chula Vista in one 50 NM run at +/- 5 knots under sail. We had joined the Chula Vista YC & so had reciprocal privileges up and down the coast, so while at Dana Point we stayed in a guest slip at the Dana West YC.

Views from our mooring in Newport...

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I imagine you'll have fun fishing out there. Maybe get some hauls like this that we saw while at the CYM Cabrillo marina in San Pedro. Those guys gave us some filets of sea bass & boy were they tasty!

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In July of 2017 we went back to Catalina with our Albin, but trailered to Huntington Beach and launched from there instead. However no immediate plans in the near future to return, as we like to concentrate most of our cruising in the Pacific Northwest.

[DesertAlbin736]

Mariner,

Gig Harbor's a neat place too. If I could afford to I'd move there & just spend winters down here. That's were we bought our new dinghy from in 2016. May go back & do some San Juans & Gulf Islands cruising this coming summer, but that's still TBD.

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