It is always a pleasure to sail on a boat that the crew are on top of everything, there is no talking and it just happens. On saturday I was set to go out for brunch and go for a hike when at 8am I got a phone call asking me to sail on the J120 Chance for Stone Cup. It turned out to be a typical San Francisco city front day blowing 25 with gusts to 31, a large fog bank basically rounding marks using GPS and then sailing out of the fog and into sunshine. Everyone was really cold and wet by the end of the day meanwhile in Belvedere (just across the bay) it was 80F and 15 kntos of wind. I was relatively warm as I was in the back trimming – short taking the city front always keeps you warm. We got two seconds, I didn’t sail on Sunday as I was not needed end result was a second in the regatta.

Saturday night Barry (owner of Chance) took us out to a restuarant down near the ball park. It was a great crew dinner with 20 of us, it was kind of Barry to include me. Antipasto for starters and a delicous dessert plate 🙂

The weather in the last week has been crazy – last thursday it as 100F and I didn’t go outside as it wasn’t neccesary. Friday cooled down a little and we had a fun Friday night race (with the usual brother sister bickering). This week it is cold outside in the mid 50F and it is trousers and jacket weather even in Marin.

This week we are getting the Quest 33 ready for Spinnaker Cup – race to Monterey which starts on Friday. Looks like we might have a quick ride down there. The forecast is for 25 to 30 behind us. I have made Taco Chilli for dinner and brownies for dessert. Now I have to finish the rigging!