Midweek sail

I’ve been working a lot on weekends what with all the travelling, so I took a Wednesday off.  Of course, midweek, the problem arises of where do I get crew.  Luckily, Anna works a non-M-F schedule, and my downstairs neighbor Drew isn’t working currently.  I’m confident in Anna’s ability, but Drew was untested entity.  He spent 20 years or so as a flight attendant – I first thought he might be good crew the morning an apartment next door burned.  Five am in the morning, and he’s arranging blankets and shoes for all the displaced people…WHILE THE FIRE IS STILL BURNING!

Anyway, I knew the day was shaping up well when I asked for a diet Coke and his response was, “Would you like a cup of ice with that?”

So many times I’ve had galley boys whose childhood dreams were to be flight attendants.  Now I finally had a real one!  At another point, I asked him to hand me my jacket, and he very carefully picked it up, found the collar, shook it and smoothed it out, then handed it to me.  Most people just fling.

Beautiful day!  It was pretty windy, so I decided to sail on jib alone, which I don’t usually do.  It worked pretty well,  although I couldn’t head up well and couldn’t tack at all in a certain direction.  I don’t know if this is normal for jib alone, or something I was doing wrong.

Tried to sail in to Angel Island without the motor, but the winds didn’t cooperate.  Oh well, first attempt, I’ll do it next time.  Had a great picnic and nap.  Then sailed home and guacamole at Fish.

hmm, none of the photos are working.  I’ll post them later with the pictures from this Saturday’s sail when Chris and I saw the Coast Guard arresting someone.  Then we stole kayaks and went kayaking at 9 pm.