Maris Stella Yacht Club and Crabbing Society
Imagine a very fast boat (Stars & Stripes) at least twice as large as this one that is coming at you on port tack while you are in a considerably smaller sailboat on a starboard tack. You have the right of way but does the other boat really see you? And it keeps getting closer and closer......
On Sunday, Dave took us (Emma, her friend Sarah, Kyle & I) out on Blue Canoe, a 32 foot Ericson. I was a beautiful day for sailing and we went out a few miles into the Pacific and seemed to own the ocean. Unfortunately, Sarah began feeling the effects of the ocean swells and so we returned to San Diego Bay for a more comfortable afternoon of sailing. Still, a beautiful day, a nice boat, plenty to eat and drink, who could ask for anything more? As we sailed around the bay we were accompanied by two America's Cup Yachts, Stars & Stripes and Abracadabra that take interested passengers for a thrilling ride up and down the bay. Even though we would be moving along at times at a pretty good clip, 6 1/2 to 7 knots, these big boys would go right past us as if we were anchored. Well, early in the afternoon we were on a starboard tack and heading toward the Coronado Bridge when Stars & Stripes began a port tack run in our direction. It is amazing how quickly that boat can move over water! And it is amazing how nervous you can be as it gets closer and closer and you start to wonder if they see you and are they going to go in front or behind or straight into you? Should we hold our course or go into evasive maneuvers? Or just jump ship and swim for it? I guess that they were just kind of playing chicken with us but we didn't chicken out! They ended up going behind us like a rocket.
Skipper Dave with nerves of steel, true and brave, steady on the wheel, the good sailing vessel Blue Canoe, starboard! or not, an able bodied crew, is that a yacht or a Guernsey Cow?, we crossed Stars & Stripes bow!!!
6 comments:
looks like i'm going to have to disallow anonymous commenting - spammers have found our blog!!!!!!!
who is that picture of and why is that guy who looks alot like rosemary wearing flip flops and hanging on for dear life?
could that be a sunfish hat in the back with kaigan written on it?
I did alot of searching for a closeup picture of a large sailboat on port tack. I found a pretty good one of Stars & Stripes but it had VIAGRA written on the boom so I decided not to go with the sponsorship thing. Then I found this one and it looked like it was possibly Dave wearing his Ray-Bans at the helm. And you are right Linda that could be a MSYC cap. I couldn't believe it. And then when I looked at the other sailors I thought that the flip-flop person had a resemblance to Rosemary and I super couldn't believe it. Say, is that Stuart with the white cap and the black foul weather pants?
p.s. Re: the spammer......we love Canada
i thought that was either me or stu. the guy behind stu and me could very well be uncle bob. now we just need to know who the guy in the orange pants is.
yea, that could be you Linda & that's definitely Uncle Bob. Who is that mysterious orange-pants person? I need one of you guys who were on the boat to answer.
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