Heading home

We just motor sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge. We are on our way
home from Monterey/Santa Cruz after completing the Spinnaker Cup. The
race started late Friday morning and we finished early saturday
morning. We spent a few hours in Monterey, mostly sleeping, then
headed out for Santa Cruz in the early afternoon I believe.
It was fairly choppy and blowing in the mid 20s with higher gusts but
the boat was handling it well so we decided to continue home. Shortly
after we made that decision the motor died. We then turned towards
Santa Cruz and suddenly we went from bashing into the waves to a calm
peaceful sail. What a difference wind and wave angle makes.
Our mechanic-crewmember replaced the fuel filters and had us up and
running just in time to get in the harbor and tie up to E dock. We
soon had Trunk Monkey, winners of the spinnaker cup double handed
division, rafted next to us.
Matt and I headed over to talk to Gary and Kelly on Tiki Blue, over on
D dock. They had quite a party going and were great hosts. We have met
so many fantastic people through sailing!
We left Santa Cruz about 4 am and hope to be back to our slip by 5 or
so. We have to stop off at Brisbane Marina to drop some people off and
pump out. I'll write up the race and some other adventures when I am
at a computer. There is only so much I can do with one finger typing
on the phone.