The land people are complaining, YUCK they say!
The boat people rejoice, YEA!
Hot and wet, the AIR hath become!
Keep beating that summer sailing, DRUM!
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All those years I sailed SF Bay and something was missing. The daily small craft advisory and the raging currents I got used to all that. But Mark Twain did write a great truth, "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."
I do at times miss the SF Bay, but not on the Hot Muggy Days.
Out here on the Great East Coast, ebbs and floods another bay with a very cool indigenous name. I don't know if Mark Twain ever visited Narragansett Bay (which has more than one entrance sorry SF) but he did decide to spent his final years not too far away in Hartford, Connecticut.
And one day of hot muggy sailing I remember NOT in my five years of sailing SF
Bay. "Head up into the Delta" they'd say. The Delta gets hot, yes, a dry heat.
Well, I never did get that far up by boat into the California nautical hinterlands.
"Subtract the temp of SF from the Antioch temp and you'll get the wind speed on the bay." I think said an old Gaffer who may have sailed a green Columbia 26.
Here on the Bay of the Narragansetts I've heard no similar formula. You know, maybe something like "subtract the Newport temp from the Providence temp..."
Well, some of us (this poor writer/sailor/poet?) still need a bit more thawing from the past winter (look at the postings on this blog from January, February and March 2015) and some recent hot muggy days have helped. Hot gray hazy humid thunderstorm weather hail warnings tornado warnings.
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The Albin Vega 27, known for some amazing ocean crossings and a double continent circumnavigation also makes a fine diddly-boppin day sailor.
Fair Winds
Captain Bill
The boat people rejoice, YEA!
Hot and wet, the AIR hath become!
Keep beating that summer sailing, DRUM!
_____
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| The Schooner "Columbia" sailing northbound in Rhode Island Sound en-route to Narragansett Bays East Passage. |
All those years I sailed SF Bay and something was missing. The daily small craft advisory and the raging currents I got used to all that. But Mark Twain did write a great truth, "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."
I do at times miss the SF Bay, but not on the Hot Muggy Days.
Out here on the Great East Coast, ebbs and floods another bay with a very cool indigenous name. I don't know if Mark Twain ever visited Narragansett Bay (which has more than one entrance sorry SF) but he did decide to spent his final years not too far away in Hartford, Connecticut.
And one day of hot muggy sailing I remember NOT in my five years of sailing SF
Bay. "Head up into the Delta" they'd say. The Delta gets hot, yes, a dry heat.
Well, I never did get that far up by boat into the California nautical hinterlands.
"Subtract the temp of SF from the Antioch temp and you'll get the wind speed on the bay." I think said an old Gaffer who may have sailed a green Columbia 26.
Here on the Bay of the Narragansetts I've heard no similar formula. You know, maybe something like "subtract the Newport temp from the Providence temp..."
Well, some of us (this poor writer/sailor/poet?) still need a bit more thawing from the past winter (look at the postings on this blog from January, February and March 2015) and some recent hot muggy days have helped. Hot gray hazy humid thunderstorm weather hail warnings tornado warnings.
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| Rounding Beavertail Lighthouse, June, 2015. |
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The Albin Vega 27, known for some amazing ocean crossings and a double continent circumnavigation also makes a fine diddly-boppin day sailor.
Fair Winds
Captain Bill
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