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Mark departs Los Angeles Harbor on Thursday, May 28th, bound for Avalon, Catalina Island, aboard his Valiant 40-2, with guest Vince — last aboard 20 years earlier on a Tartan 27.2:48 Winds out of LA Harbor run 8–9 knots true, light enough that they motor sail to make Avalon before dark.3:55 A 600-foot tanker, the Harrisburg, closes to a CPA of half a mile; Mark turns hard to port to make the course change obvious.7:59 Once clear, Vince deploys the genoa and the boat reaches 7.3–7.4 knots, briefly chasing friend Ron's motor vessel Lorena.8:36 They pick up mooring 91 in Avalon, where moorings fill fast on a Thursday ahead of the Catalina Wine Mixer weekend.12:19 Departure Sunday morning is delayed past the 9 a.m. clearance deadline.15:09 The return leg carries only 3 knots of wind until the final stretch.16:59 A tangled anchor chain in an undersized locker forces them to abort anchoring at Island White, an oil island off Long Beach near Queens Gate.17:33 They instead pick up a Belmont Shore mooring at $1 per foot per day — no harbor staff, just a text and a Venmo QR code on the mooring float.21:47 Boat traffic runs fast through the mooring field, and a Padma Leader cargo ship passes within 100 meters on departure.19:35 An anchor locker too small for the Valiant 40-2's chain is identified as the boat's main unresolved issue.

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