Pearl and paddling!

Clean, full of fuel and water, all electronics working, PFDs re-armed, new flares, ready to travel!

Pearl is ready to go on a trip! In two weeks, she is heading out the Golden Gate and heading south to Monterey. Pearl, five women (two just for the passage, three of us aboard for the whole trip) and two paddle boards! We'll paddle and sail for eight days, with stops in Monterey, Moss Landing/Elkhorn Slough, Santa Cruz, Half Moon Bay, and last stop: watching the America's Cup racing in the bay on our way back to Berkeley.

We have two Surftech B1 "Bombers" to take along, they're paddle boards made out of a blown foam and they're supposed to be indestructible. So far, mine has been put to the test, it's been dropped, dragged, beaten with jib sheets......and it's looking fine.

Paddle board on the Gualala River