Erik D. Jones’s Blog

After completing my BK and BC certifications with OCSC, I came across an amazing deal on a used 28 foot cruising sloop.  I was sailing “Sizzle” on Saturday with 5 non-sailing friends.  It was a great day despite the patchy fog and the cooler weather.  We sailed out of the Berkeley Marina where I keep her tied up on L-dock and head out close hauled to Ayala Cove.  We had a great picnic lunch and barbecue ashore.  I put a reef in before we left the dock and we spent the rest of the late afternoon sailing around the west side of Angel Island and past the east side of Alcatraz before making a run back to Berkeley.  I decided to drop the headsail early because the winds were picking up and we were bobbing along in 3′ swells.