While growing up in Eureka, on Humboldt Bay, I remember being surprized at the size of some of the vessels that came into the bay to evade bad weather. Last April, the Lady Washington, a 178 ton tallship came to Bodega Bay for a few days, it had left Sausalito (about 60 nautical miles) ONE WEEK earlier, but at times was actually going backwards due to up to 50 knot headwinds. A little over two months later, I sailed (motored actually) from Bodega Bay into San Francisco Bay on flat calm seas. You could have waterskied on the Pacific that day. I did the bash from San Diego to San Francisco last year, but I wouldn't want to go from San Francisco to Seattle. I'm not enough of a masochist! That reminds me, did you hear about the masochist who liked to take an ice cold shower every morning? So he took a hot one.
