Sept 4 - after the bridge

What do you do now? The sun is a shinning, the wind is a blowing, the crew wants to tour San Francisco, what better way then to sail around the city and Alcatraz Island. What a finish to a great trip.

For all the you wanting to know, really how was the trip? I can't say enough about the crew, they were great. Sailing with my lovely wife, my brother Ray and Jennifer and Mac is one of the trips never to be forgotten. Linda's comment was I have to sail with 4 Warren's, ( apparently 1 is more then enough for most.) Disappointments, well the auto pilot needs a little more work but the wind vane performed great. Biggest surprise, for me it was my idea of down wind sails changed totally. I though that our spinnaker and genoa would be the main force. Problem with both of them is they were too heavy. With the swells and waves hitting you from the back corner every 3 or 4 waves the boat would rock, this would spill the air out of the sail, colapse, bang and refill. After a while you try all types of configurations. Day 2 we tried putting up the small yankee jib. Well what a difference, the sail could move through a change of wind angle of 30 to 40 degrees or more on each side. Rarely colapse not bang around, and we were pointing almost dead down wind. On day 3 to 5 when the winds were up we tried the yankee stay sail and it was the same, easy to ride and look after.