Sailing in the Bay

We did not quite know how this was going to work out but there are some small dreams coming true here.

We arranged to join the Modern Sailing School and Club in Sausalito ( www.modernsailing.com ).
They allowed us to joint for a month and kindly also reduced the one off joining fee.

Billy No Mates at Jazz by The Bay

Last Friday we attended the Jazz By The Bay social in Sausalito which is a local free gig held on the grassy area near the ferry jetty. The club sponsors a table at the event and we hoped to meet other bay area sailors... Ha... turned out we were the only MSC members that turned up that night!

Guests at the Sausalito Yacht Club. Thanks to Mark and Cheryl

Not being backward in coming forward we introduced ourselves to the group on the next table from the Sausalito Yacht Club (very nice thank you very much!)... What followed was a great night out with local sailors Mark and Cheryl. We ended up in the yacht club bar overlooking the bay to The City. Many stories were swapped! Audrey drove home ;-)

The thing is.... Sausalito is a very very expensive place but you take sailors that are managing to scrape some dosh together to charter or even own 34ish foot yachts and we are all the same! Damp campers!

Yesterday (Sunday) we attended our first club sail and joined with a diverse group of US sailors for a circumnavigation of Alcatraz and Angel Island. It got very windy in "The Slot" which is the corridoor under and through the Golden Gate bridge that sucks cold air in from the Ocean as the heat of the bay forms thermal rise.

Finally a video crossing the slot: I'm helming one handed in 30 knots of wind while holding an iPhone in the other hand. We had two hankercheifs up and the boat was still doing 7 knots to windward.