John, Dan, Josh and I sailed John’s FT10 “Savage Beauty” from San Francisco Bay to Half-Moon Bay in the YRA’s annual race. This is typically a wild downwind ride in the 15-25+knots of wind that blows from the north down the coast. Of course, this year we had shifty 5-10knot winds from the [...]
Archive for June, 2008
SF YRA’s Half-Moon Bay ocean race on John’s FT10 “Savage Beauty”
Published June 29th, 2008 in Racing and Sailing. ClosedAmber and Roem joined Sara and me at Alice’s free Summer Thing concert at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Lifehouse, Ingrid Michaelson, The Last Goodnight, and Marie Digby put on an awesome show!
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Friday evening beer-can racing on a Flying Tiger 10m
Published June 22nd, 2008 in Racing and Sailing. ClosedCaptain John invited Sara and I to join him and the rest of his crew for a friday-night beer can race aboard his Flying Tiger 10m, sailed from South Beach Marina just south of the Bay Bridge in SF. The FT10 is a fairly new ultralight sailing boat with extendable sprit, giant asymmetric spinnaker, [...]
Chris and Scott invited me to join them onboard Chris’ Farrier F-27 for race 3 of the interclub inside-the-bay race sponsored by Oakland Yacht Club. Six different fleets raced, each with an average of six or seven boats, on a course that was 13.7nm for the slower boats and 18.1nm for the faster boats. [...]
