Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Video of Elise getting ready to sail under the Golden Gate Bridge



Also courtesy of Peter Lyons. Bringing in the main as it was flogging, adjusting it for the right point of sail (we were sailing a little off the breeze to make sure the oil spill could be contained in the bilge (and not spread all over because of the heeling angle) - you can clearly see me getting closer to the companionway hatch, that's when Nathan was asking me to keep the boat even. Right afterwards, you can see that the boat sails much flatter than in the previous videos - as we came down.

The horn was the fog horn from the bridge (there are two of them - South Tower has a really low pitched one) - the fog was lifting up in the Bay right at that time.

We were going to sail back right into it though as soon as we passed the gate.

Full video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEms9VgmXNk

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