Sept. 3-4, 2010

Lynne and I has a full day sailing on September 3rd. We motored out the estuary with Lynne at the helm. We had agreed to meet some of Lynne's sailing classmates, Mike and Jeff and their wives, at Pier 1.5 and go out to lunch at a a Peruvian restaurant that is right on the water. Her friends had chartered a boat and were sailing over to meet us there.

After lunch we decided to sail across the bay and around Angel Island and the raft up at clipper cove. However the sail across the bay was a wild one. The winds we blowing in excess of 25 knots so we had to put in both reefs and still had a wet and wild crossing. So instead of continuing to Clipper Cove we decided to take a slip at Ayla Cove on Angel Island. We had a nice time socializing with a nice spread of wine cheese and munchies.

We the headed back across the bay and the winds were still blowing hard in the slot. So we had to put in a double reef. When we got into the slot the fog was down at sea level so I had Lynne's friends, who did not have radar, follow behind me and we motor-sailed across the slot. Once we got to the bay bridge we broke into sunshine again and Lynne's friends continued down to club nautique to return their boat. Lynne and I turned left and headed back to Treasure Island to anchor out for the night.

Pete and Bethany sailed up from Alameda to start their weekend sail down to half moon bay and then they were planning on coming back and sailing around the San Francisco Bay for the rest of the week. Their friends John and Dawn came up in their boat and we all rafted up together and had a great time eating, drinking and talking.

On Saturday our friends departed early. Lynne and I made some coffee, finished a crossword puzzle together and sailed back to our slip.