I can not describe the feeling of sailing in the bay on an $800,000, four bedroom, three bathroom yacht. It was amazing.
My CTO told me I needed to get out of the house more (what does he know, I have been out, I swear) so he invited me on a day-long sailing trip with a close friend of his. Funny thing here is that another dear friend of mine was also going to be on the boat and had told me many times I should join him so I was killing two birds at once.
I met Jordan and Helga at Jordan's house at nine AM (on a Sunday mind you) and after a quick jaunt to the Sports Basement for gloves we headed to the Marina in Alameda to meet up with the crew for our 10 hour tour of the bay.
The yacht was a brand new 54 foot sailing vessel that blew my mind. It was gorgeous. They hadn't even removed the blue tape from where they are vanishing the wood, that's how new it is.
The crew consisted of Matt (our Captain), Jordan, Helga, Paulie, Adam, Brian, Lee, Gail and me. Matt has been sailing for five years and can run any boat except a commercial vessel so we were in great hands. We left the Marina at noon and sailed out towards the Golden Gate Bridge. While we did pass The Gate, the wind for sailing was stronger on the bay side so our trip into the vast ocean was short lived.
We toured every bit of the bay while listening to great music, eating yummy food and threatening to toss anyone overboard who didn't do my bidding. I spent a lot of time chatting with Matt's mom, Gail, a lovely Jewish mom who cuddled with me when I got cold and Paulie was too busy tacking.
Sometime around 7 PM, after I had sailed us through the channel, we docked at Jack London Square (surreal pulling up to guest parking in a yatch) and had a great sashimi and sake dinner at Yoshi's. The company was awesome. The food was (as usual) perfect and I was so sleepy I almost nodded off after two drinks and some Shiro Maguro. Hmmm perfect.
We didn't dock back into Alameda until after 10 PM and I was so ready to go home and snuggle up for the night. I slept sounder last night than I have in a month. Feeling a little sore today, but it was well worth it.
My CTO told me I needed to get out of the house more (what does he know, I have been out, I swear) so he invited me on a day-long sailing trip with a close friend of his. Funny thing here is that another dear friend of mine was also going to be on the boat and had told me many times I should join him so I was killing two birds at once.
I met Jordan and Helga at Jordan's house at nine AM (on a Sunday mind you) and after a quick jaunt to the Sports Basement for gloves we headed to the Marina in Alameda to meet up with the crew for our 10 hour tour of the bay.
The yacht was a brand new 54 foot sailing vessel that blew my mind. It was gorgeous. They hadn't even removed the blue tape from where they are vanishing the wood, that's how new it is.
The crew consisted of Matt (our Captain), Jordan, Helga, Paulie, Adam, Brian, Lee, Gail and me. Matt has been sailing for five years and can run any boat except a commercial vessel so we were in great hands. We left the Marina at noon and sailed out towards the Golden Gate Bridge. While we did pass The Gate, the wind for sailing was stronger on the bay side so our trip into the vast ocean was short lived.
We toured every bit of the bay while listening to great music, eating yummy food and threatening to toss anyone overboard who didn't do my bidding. I spent a lot of time chatting with Matt's mom, Gail, a lovely Jewish mom who cuddled with me when I got cold and Paulie was too busy tacking.
Sometime around 7 PM, after I had sailed us through the channel, we docked at Jack London Square (surreal pulling up to guest parking in a yatch) and had a great sashimi and sake dinner at Yoshi's. The company was awesome. The food was (as usual) perfect and I was so sleepy I almost nodded off after two drinks and some Shiro Maguro. Hmmm perfect.
We didn't dock back into Alameda until after 10 PM and I was so ready to go home and snuggle up for the night. I slept sounder last night than I have in a month. Feeling a little sore today, but it was well worth it.
1 comment:
wow - my kinda day! Glad you got out and had a great time with some folks you really enjoy! Looks awesome! And to end the day w/ sushi? YUMMM ;)
~Lyn~
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