Dennis, It's amazing what seamanship the Blue Angels brings out. We have their display here in San Francisco every October for "Fleet Week". Of course there are no Naval Bases here but it's nice that they come out and show off - their display is simply awesome.
I usually go out to watch them anchored off Alcatraz Island. Of course there is always anchoring fun there too. I always like to keep away from the power boats - it's like they come out only twice a year and haven't a clue. One year one of them decided to anchor off the west end of Alcatraz and wasn't concerned about the buoy off the point - well later on they realized what it was there for as they became impaled on "Little Acalraz" - a nasty sharp rock. The photo in the next morning's SF Chronicle was impressive. The nice 40 foot power boat was completely level but 2 feet above the water - fully impaled. Today was club racing on the Bay. Started off with a nice 15 knot breeze, but soon got up to 25 gusting 40 - bit of a handful for my 29-1. I had a couple of experienced crew who hadn't sailed on my boat before - we had a dead run in 25 kts in a good ebb - nice waves - everything right for rocking and rolling - fairly typical in my boat - took them a while to get used to it - the rest of my crew were at rest and know to hang on. Fun on the wheel :) I'd love to sail in the gulf. It must be nice to sail in warm water! On Saturday, July 14, 2012, Dennis C. wrote: > Nice sail across Pensacola Bay then motored to anchor point in Santa Rosa > Sound to watch Blue Angels air show. Frequent showers but after a short > rain delay the US Navy's finest put on a great show. One of the solo pilots > made an incredibly tight turn right over Touché. The vapor coming off the > wings and fuselage was pretty impressive. > > Lots of boats anchored in Fishing Bend to watch the air show. However, a > lot of the show was the boats and lack of seamanship. We watched a large > Carver motor yacht "anchor" off our port side. Took the idiot a full half > hour to realize he wasn't hooked. He finally figured it out and moved. Then > he dragged again. After a display of incredible ineptitude, he managed to > hook his anchor over the anchor rode of a 50+ foot sport fisherman and bang > into the side of it. Watching the two boats tangled together was painful. > > This was only one instance of half dozen or so anchor dragging events. > This isn't rocket science. Some people are just stuck on stupid. > > Most of the boats have left and the admiral and I just grilled and ate a > nice dinner. We're about to weigh anchor and head back to the Pensacola > Yacht Club. > > Dennis C. > Touché 35-1 #83 > Mandeville, LA > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com <javascript:;> > -- Ian Matthew "Siento el Viento" C&C 29 mk 1 San Francisco Bay Sent from my iPad using Gmail Mobile
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