Well, I was for two days, anyway. Photo is of me on board Gwylan, headed for the green can on the first leg of the first day of the Homer Yacht Club’s two-day regatta. Fourteen sailboats in the race, there is no more beautiful sight than all those lovely boats, sails raised, spread out over Kachemak Bay. I’m crewing, basically tripping and stumbling around the boat trying not to get into anyone’s way and hauling on lines and sails where directed (and allowed). I actually got to steer on Sunday, although I immediately put us on a bearing for Hawaii and the captain had to come scrambling back to get us on course. Might have been subliminal…

Photo by my crewmate, Jonathan Coke. Thanks, Jonathan! He works for KBBI, the Bay’s local public radio station, and is also my most recent Facebook buddy.

The second photo is of our, um, interesting start on the second day, which believe me looks a lot less terrifying from the beach than it does when you’re in the middle of it. But no boat was sunk, nobody drowned and everybody crossed the finish line, so it was a good day sailing on the Bay. And the weather turned simply glorious, so no slipping and sliding around a wet deck, always a good thing. This photo taken by Terry Rensel, the program director at KBBI, who was standing on Coal Point at the end of the Homer Spit with his dad at just the right moment.