Sailing Education Adventures

Prediction: Rain. Prediction: Cloudy low 60s.

The weatherman was incredibly wrong all week -- we had sunny skies and close to 70 degrees for our keelboat sail. While the wind died down to 5 knots (from a prediction of 25 knots!), John Paul, Pawel and I ventured out with plans to meet Kenichi and Catherine who were also out sailing.

We never made it as we had a big surprise! While cruising on the East side of Angel Island, we had a visitor…a 40 foot whale who was 20 feet from our boat! Little did we know, male whales will come into the Bay. We watched as it swam away, coming up to the surface every few minutes. It was a National Geographic moment in our backyard!

After another hour, we sailed back to Sausalito, completely jazzed with our outing.

Moral of the story: When you least expect it, it will happen. Oh yes, and keelboats sails are amazing!