| On September 9th, 2006, Team Dance Away took Delicate Balance to Santa Cruz in the '06 Windjammers. As always it was a pleasure to hook up with my homies again to do some sailing. |
| Unfortunately, this time the conditions weren't all that great. The day started 0ff with some wind but it wasn't expected to last... and it didn't. The day was dominated with headsail changes as we struggled to make our sail plan match the present conditions... but these conditions never seemed to last very long so it was on to another headsail change. I counted at least twelve changes but I think there were a couple more that got lost in the shuffle. It all became a blur after awhile. Finally somewhere between eight and nine, we decided that we had our lives to get back to so we packed it in. Sigh... |
| Not so many pictures this time... I took a lot but they were mostly of us sitting around looking grumpy and all kinda looked the same. Being in a fast sailboat that isn't moving cuz there's no wind can really put you in a bad mood. But other than that, it was a lovely day and as I said before, it was an absolute joy to be sailing with these guys again. |
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| "What the Smiling Orca Sees" - changing out the roller furling masthead |
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| My goodness those people are small |
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| Ben cleaning the dirt from the mast | I know that this was a lot harder than Ben made it look | |
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| The happy orca on Doug's OLT #1 mainsail | Leaving the next morning... I think it was around 7:30 when we left the dock | |
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| The immigration facility on Angel Island in the early morning sun.. and fog | ||
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| Putting up the light air main... | Point Blunt in the early morning fog | |
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| Reassembling the main prefeeder | ||
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| See the little orca way up there? | ||
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| Lined up along the rail... Doug, Sydney, Dave, Bernard and Scott | Face to the camera... Scott, Ben, Mike, Bob and Paul | |
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| Mile Rock | I wonder what they're looking at | |
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| VA Hospital | ||
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| The brain trust of the group checking out the competition | Mike and Bob | |
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| First view of San Pedro Rock | ||
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| I had never been this close to this rock... | I didn't know that it had such an unusual shape | |
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| We traded tacks with Heartbeat... more pictures of Heartbeat | ||
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| Mike, Bob and Bernard with Pillar Point behind us | ||
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| Dave letting us know what he thinks of this no wind situation | Goin' slow without much going on... except maybe more headsail changes | |
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| But wait!... what's that over there? | ||
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| Mike driving | ||
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| Close to sunset | Glassy ocean surface... no wind... | |
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| Pidgeon Point off in the distance... just where it's been for the last hour or so | ||
| That's it for pictures... the sun went down, the wind completely died and not long after that we started the engine... | ||
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