Weekend Wrap-Up

Our yacht club asked us to do a dinner Friday and give a presentation about the Pacific Cup.  The boat owners put together a slide show / video and Matt and I served tacos for dinner.  That only took three trips to Costco and one to a Mexican restaurant for beans and rice.  I did the shopping and Matt did the cooking and prep.  Several people pitched in to help with the room set up and clean up and all in all we had a great time AND we got this nice note from one of our members:

Hi Jennifer and Mat:

Besides being a lot of fun, the dinner you prepared was the best of the year. I love taco's. All the best, --

WOW!  So after THAT we had to take off and relax for the rest of the weekend.

Saturday morning we took the boat down to Westpoint Marina in Redwood City.  The marina is so new that it and the channel through the slough that lead to it are not charted.  It was somewhat nerve racking to get in there but we made it!  Matt was not totally lined up with the slip and came in a little too close on starboard but the docks are designed with rounded edges so we just got a little scratch.  The Owner of the marina was down there before we even had the dock lines tied and gave us a warm welcome, complemented us in the boat and then went to get us a 50 amp to 30 amp converter so we could plug in.  He also pointed out the wi fi and the slip side pump outs that were available to us.  We really like the place and look forward to the day when the proposed further development is in place.  Right now it is a mile walk to get to the yacht club and restaurant up the rode.  After we got the boat settled in we set off on that walk to go check out the "port fest" at the port of Redwood City.  It was super fun and we ended up finishing the afternoon at the Sequoia Yacht Club.  They cruise to Angel Island for the weekend on the day after Thanksgiving every year and we let them know we were coming up Thanksgiving day and would be there the whole weekend.  They also invited us to come to South Beach Yacht Club in San Francisco with them to go ice skating in December.  AND one of them offered to drive us back to Westpoint, though we ended up having a friend come up to have dinner with us at Bella's and she drove us home after.

Here is Matt on the boat at the slip in Westpoint.

We were in bed by 9 and had grand plans of leaving early Sunday morning.  We actually did not leave until almost 11, which we can pretend was due to the tides as that gave us a nice ride home on the ebb tide.  I drove a lot of the way and then turned it over to Matt to get us into the slip as I got out the lines and fenders.  It was his best docking yet, just absolutely spot on.  He made a comment that of course he did great with nobody around and I pointed out that someone on the next dock had actually been watching.  I have seen this same guy watching us several times and Matt said he has heard that this guy just got his boat and is afraid to drive it.  Our motto is it is only fiberglass but this guy's boat looks a few decades newer so I guess he has more reason to be paranoid about getting in and out of the slip???

We have a few different boat projects going, including installing GFCI outlets (1 down, 1 or 2 to go depending how they are wired) making covers for the outside of the windshield windows, finishing the throw pillows... we have a two page to do list...

This Saturday is our anniversary and we are going to be race committee then host a potluck.  Hopefully Sunday will be "our" day and we can relax and work on some of our projects!