A Brief Tour of My Boat
June 8, 2014
I’m ready to leave for San Francisco. NOAA forecast 25-35 kt winds in the central strait this afternoon and evening, which is about when I’ll be there if I leave in the next few hours. I’m watching the buoy data, attempting to time my departure to miss that business. Getting out of the strait is a bitch this time of year. It’s eighty-odd miles straight into the wind, tacking all the way, and when the current turns against you those tacks can seem like they’re taking you nowhere.
In the meantime I made a couple of videos to show people where I’ll be living and working until mid-August. It’s a small boat, and it seems even smaller looking at it on a monitor. Am I sure I want to do this? Well . . . ? The cool thing about this kind of sailing is that, even when the weather’s awful and everything is going wrong, it only takes a day on the dock before you’re itching to get out there again. Go out, get beaten up, recover, repeat. I’d like to hear what a shrink has to say about that.
Outside the boat:
Inside the boat:
