Racing Snaps from a Delightful Weekend

Golden Gate Yacht Club was pleased to be able to get a midwinter race off on Saturday, as temperatures warmed the sailors who hung around in the sunshine, patiently waiting out a 1:20-hour shoreside postponement. In a gentle northerly, the course for all divisions was an easy reach-reach around Alcatraz, just four miles.

On Sunday, Richmond Yacht Club’s Small Boat Midwinters occupied two courses out of the way of shipping: The smaller boats sailed in Keller Cove, just north of the old ferry pier, and between Southampton Shoal and Brooks Island.

Sailors might have wished for more wind, but a high pressure system and little variation in temperature between the coast and the inland valleys kept the breezes light. It was a weekend when some folks in the Bay Area found themselves applying sunscreen to arms and legs for the first time this year.

Racing Sheet will feature more of the weekend’s midwinters in the March issue of Latitude 38. (When we say "midwinter," we’re tempted to put "winter" in air quotes.)