NorCal Sailing has been covering the San Francisco Bay waterfront online for several years and brings us this story from the racing on San Francisco Bay to the boatbuilding at the Encinal Yacht Club:
Summer Sailstice couldn't have picked a nicer day than June 22 for a celebration of sailing on the longest (weekend) day of the year. That is, if you happened to be at Encinal YC in Alameda, or on the Estuary.
If you were out in the middle of San Francisco Bay in the YRA's Party Circuit race, you had a completely different experience. Comments from returning sailors escalated from "howling," through "nuking," to "honking." Kristen Walthour, crewing on Dan Alvarez's JS9000 JetStream said, "We did a little deep sea diving and some bucking broncos." On Barry and Sylvia Stompe's Hughes 48 yawl Iolani, they reefed the main for the first time ever during a race.
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