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Nathan Bossett is a San Francisco area racer and now cruiser on a variety
of boats.
This blog will evolve in form over time. It's intended to preserve a
blog format while keeping subjects/tags intact for sort/search. For now,
the minimalist cms bloxsom is an excellent fit.
Todo:
- CSS instead of tables
- links by month
- cleaner spacing on pics/text
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Half Moon Bay Cruise 2014-09-06
A friend, Bridgitt Ahern, has just been concluding some coastal navigation
classes at Club Nautique. As a final exam, they run a cruise up to
Drake's Bay or down to Half Moon Bay with an instructor boat and a few
student boats following. Bridgitt recruited some sailing friends as her
crew for the exercise. Unfortunately, we wound up unable to use the trip
as her exam but did the cruise and exercises anyway.
It was a really fun group with diverse backgrounds: Bridgitt, a veteran
cruiser, someone just back from the Clipper round the world race (Sarah
Lloyd), and me.
The conditions were light enough that we steamed or motor-sailed
significant portions of each leg. Still, we got in some good sailing in
conditions which topped out at around 10 kts of breeze except inside Pt.
Bonita. We had tight reach conditions for most of the trips there and
back with occasional beating. Our particular group was of three boats
total though there was another group doing the same thing from a different
branch of Club Nautique. With more than one boat on the trip, of course
we were racing: in spite of having less waterline than the instructor boat
and significantly inferior sails versus the other student boat, we managed
to be faster on all points of sail. Trim matters!
The conditions in Half Moon Bay for our overnight were beautiful: calm and
warm. It took us two tries to set the hook properly; our first attempt
was under sail and we didn't have enough force to dig it in. After that,
we had a great dinner and good night of sleep. The trip back was equally
enjoyable and the breeze picked up as we got closer to the gate. Back on
the bay, as usual there was more than enough.
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