Went sailing, paddled the boat, didn't sink!

Yesterday i made a failed attempt at sailing solo. The engine died and i was just not quite savvy enough to get the sails up and sail out of the marina. Today i talked warren in to joining me. We were trying to get the engine started when a nice berkeley boater came over to see what our problem was. She asked if we had paddles and if we did, why not use them. So we did. We paddled the boat out of the marina. It’s a real pain that my slip is the farthest one from the marina entrance.

Just as we were getting near the entrance we got a tow from another sail boat on it’s way out which had a working motor. At first there wasn’t much wind, but it picked up as we slowly moved out and it felt like we were doing a good clip. Probably about 3 or 4 miles an hour, but it FELT fast. We made it about half way to angel island before i decided that i wasn’t to sure it’d be as easy to return as it was to go out…. I turned us around and we made our way back. We sailed right up to the slip. I had a few failed attempts at tacking in the marina, but the wind shifted so we could go straight in without it. All in all it was pretty successful afternoon. It’s really nice to do something so very different from sitting in front of a computer and programming.

Warren took photos and put them up as a flickrset, Sailing the AnarchoBoat.