August 29, 2010

Lynne and I took some of her friends from club Nautique, Sheila and Mike (and his wife and son) for a sail around the Bay. We motored out the estuary under light winds leaving at about 1200. Once on the bay we sailed under variable winds (9-17 knts) first south and then NNW as we passed under the Bay Bridge towards Alcatraz. Mike had the wheel from the estuary to the Bay Bridge and the Sheila took the wheel up to Alcatraz. We put in a reef at mid bay when the winds we consistently 21+. Once the started gusting over 25 I took the helm. We sailed past the west side of Angle Island, down Racoon Straights and back to the slip. Winds in the slot were gusting over 30 knts making for a fun sail. We got back to the slip about 1745.

August 7, 2010

This past week Lynne enrolled and passed a sailing course on Basic Keelboat (BK). I am so proud of her and so happy that she had a great time during the course. In fact, she enjoyed it so much that she has signed up for Basic Cruising, which will entitle her to charter boats in most locations. So today we went out for a sail to celebrate and Andrew came along. We sailed down to Club Nautique, where she is taking her sailing lessons and met with her instructor and one other classmate. We also signed her up for BC and had dinner at Pier 29. Afterwards we sailed home and the first part of the sail was quite exciting. We had 25=28 knt winds coming out of Ballena Marina and had plenty of water coming over and into the boat. Eventually the winds calmed down and we had a nice sail back to the slip on a full run down the estuary.