Leslie Foote

Beautiful blue skies, but very brisk winds with lots of gusts and swells to 78 feet. Made good time and had a wonderful day out no Wildlife other than lots of pelican and dead sardines in the wharf.

Weather was absolutely beautiful with slight haze on the horizon. When we started, however it was socked in and very foggy so the race had been called off. The race was supposed to go out to the new Bowie wave Runner out in the bay. We decided to pursue that on our own and found that it took us over five hours to get out thereand the wind died on the return trip making it quite a long journey learned a lot about protective lines, lazy jacks, tacking, and sailing down wind barely made it into port with the electric motor. Saw some whales in the distance lots of pelican swells, moderate lovely day.

Beautiful day that started very slow and we made little progress until about 1 o’clock when the wind picked up at that point we were off but the sea was pretty rough and eventually right before we made it to the Santa Cruz mile marker we decided to discontinue the race and head backall in all. It was over eight hours of pretty rough sailing, but beautiful water lots of whales, pelican jellyfish otter it couldn’t be beat crystal clear skies.

This was the Otter cup. Lots of tacking to get around the Monterey buoy. Once there it was a straight shot and great. Blustery day. I think we won our division!