Marina Cal Sailing

Just on the side note, Segways used to be 10k a pop. And whoever came up with it probably thought he was solving humanities problems, but instead found himself pissing his money away with some jack and 40's licqhorr.

Went sailing on sunday near berkeley at the Marina or really just boat riding with a nominal amount of sailing. It was kinda fun for a few hours when the sun was out and it was warm. Just sitting out in the boat and enjoying the view, sunset was really relaxing. There were Wind surfers that surfed by, while our little sailboat struggled to avoid bigger boats and other little boats. Pretty much you avoided everything in the water and gave everyone else the right of way. Got to man the Tiller and acted as skipper for a little bit. It was certainly not rocket science, but it seemed all the experienced sea dogs make it sound all complicated with their lingo. Words like Flubbin, Tighten the Jib, Man the tiller, Go starboard, accidental tack, watch the boomer, so it went on. Generally the words just meant something like, loosen the lines, go right, when the sail is lowered, watch the mast etc.. I also got to do some of the deck scrubbin work, like loosening the lines and stuff, but I guess that's part of sailin. No cabin boy here mister.

Then after about 6 pm, that's when things turned fugly and were'nt so honkey dory. The sun went down and the wind died down completly to a gentle breeze and we were still approx 2 miles out... woopee. So nothing else we could do, except for a little paddling with the manual oars, and wait. It didn't help that I had 2 gallons of Ureene stored up that had to be expelled. So I went on the aft of the boat and told everyone to turn their heads forward. Drained the fishes literally har har. But that didn't stop the other boaters and onlookers viewing the jet propulsion I was installing in our boat. Meanwhile, the stale chilly air became almost freezing and you didn't feel like doing much except sit there. It was really draining. By the time we were docking and performing all the necessary procedure, it was evident that everyone was drained mentally and physically. Had there been a thunderstorm, I think we would have drowned and actually wouldn't have been a bad alternative. Needless to say, I think I'm done with my sea legs, and I think I'll stick with larger cruise size ships like the Catalina princess or something.

Jael