Category Archives: Sailing Northern California

Trips in and outside of San Francisco Bay

March 30-31, 2013: Flying a Kite!

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Cindy

We don’t own a spinnaker yet, and may not ever own one, but I have always wanted to know how to rig them and how to fly them, so we took a class through Club Nautique on symmetrical spinnakers.  We … Continue reading →

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March 15-17, 2013: The Ill-Fated Tag

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Cindy

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On Thursday, March 14, we drove down to Sausalito after work.  We were so excited.  Rick had been tuning up his navigation skills for weeks, and I had finally gotten through my anxiety to the point where I knew “I … Continue reading →

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March 9-10, 2013 in Sausalito; last chance to practice before Tag Test

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Cindy

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By this time, all the preparations had been made for our Tag test: the crew was ready, they knew what to bring, all our safety postings and watch schedule postings and meal schedule postings and weather predictions and navigation plans … Continue reading →

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February 16 & 17, 2013: Back out Sailing At Last!

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Cindy

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My upcoming “Tag” test, where we take a boat out the Golden Gate without an instructor for the weekend, but “tag” along with a boat that does have an instructor, was coming up in  just about a month, and I … Continue reading →

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January 20, 2013 Happy New Year!

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Cindy

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Phase I of our windlass upgrade is complete!  After what seems like an eternity of at least 8 to 10 days over the last several weeks, working on upgrading our electrical system, Phase I is done!  I will defer to … Continue reading →

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November 23-24, 2012 Sailing Again

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Cindy

11/23/12, 10.6 NM, 3 hours, Max Speed 6.2 kts These two days were our first time back sailing again since KKMI finally fixed all of their errors and got our boat back to us.  It was great to be out … Continue reading →

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An Update as of September 7, 2012

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Cindy

I haven’t posted here for a while and thought it might be a good idea to mention why.  The weekend after our passing Skipper, we spent two weekends and the week in between, out on a private whitewater wilderness trip … Continue reading →

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Rick and Cindy each pass CPM “Skipper!” July 13-15, 2012

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Cindy

In our ongoing sailing education, the next step in the US Sailing Coastal Passage Making certification process through Club Nautique was for each of us to be the student skipper of different vessels, with crew randomly assigned to us from … Continue reading →

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The Fourth of July and Motoring Practice, July 5, 2012

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Cindy

After a whirlwind week up in the State of Washington for our daughter Andrea’s wedding and to visit our sons Dan, and Drew with his wife Carmein, we flew back to Sacramento on the afternoon of the 4th of July … Continue reading →

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Coastal Passage Making Class, June 22-24, 2012

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Cindy

A corner of one of the Farallon Islands, near where we had our first whale sighting of the trip Both Rick and I were scheduled to “test” for the position of “navigator” in our U.S. Sailing certification program of Coastal … Continue reading →

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