Saturday we went sailing out of Santa Cruz, and it was really nice.  Steph and I were joined by Ray, Monica, Chris, Francis, Michael, and Ray’s Friend Paul.  The girls got sick when we went out to the high wind and rough sea.  It was fun out in the heavy wind, but the light wind was terrible.  The area inside the mile buoy was full of weak swirling winds.  Steph took a long turn fighting them while I ate, but I took back over when that was through.  She got us out to the good wind and it was nice.  I got tired of holding the wheel and my shoes were terrible at gripping the surface.  Ray took over for a while and did really well.  As long as we weren’t doing jibes, I’d be fine with anyone taking the wheel.  Afterwards we went to the Penny Ice Creamery.  There was a little stand that we found first that was a block and a half from the main building.  We walked over there once we asked the girl at the booth where the main building was.  I got some amazing coffee and praline.

Sailing out of Santa Cruz. Stopped once for food, and again to get a balloon out of the water