Over the weekend we took advantage of the unseasonably warm weather and headed down the coast to Half Moon Bay with two other boats; Fancy and Vitesse.

Everyone was marvelous about taking photos, and as a result there are far too many to post here, so I will settle for posting links to the various photo galleries:





Photos from Pisces
Fancy and Vitesse pics: Half Moon Bay 2007

It felt so wonderful to be out on the ocean--Pisces is such a great boat for the ocean swells. We had dolphins accompany us on both days and I saw more jellyfish in the ocean than I've ever seen in my life before. They were drifting in the current down south, so watch out for them if you're in southern CA!

We had a wonderful crew and with their help and experience we bought some trolling line and lures and trolled for salmon on the way home. Unfortunately all I managed to catch this time was jellyfish guts, but now I have the line on the boat-I am very positive about my successful future in fishing.



We were looking forward to another sailing trip this weekend; either out to the Farallones if the weather was amicable or just a quiet overnighter anchored in the Bay. Unfortunately, an incoming tanker hit a pylon of the Bay Bridge this week dumping around 58,000 gallons of tanker fuel into the Bay. The slick moves around the Bay with the tide; the last report I heard was that oil had been reported in the North Bay by the Richmond Bridge, down in the South Bay by Hunters Point, and outside the Golden Gate south to Ocean Beach and North to Bolinas.

Here are some sites for more information:
US Coast Guard
NOAA
Oiled Wildlife
Baykeeper Citizens Response

Needless to say, large parts of the Bay are closed and the weekend trip is off. Instead, we are going to see if there's anything we can do to help out with containment.