Holiday Sailing in San Francisco Bay #ourladydefiant #sailing #liveaboardlife #holidays

On fall days, the wind blows out of the east in San Francisco, bringing with it smells of Fall foliage, fireplaces, and a dry chill in the air. It's on days like that we enjoy sailing in what feels like a whole new place. We get to go up-wind towards Berkeley, and fly spinnakers towards the gate. Not only that, but with the king tides, we see currents rushing huge logs downstream and out the gate, to the point where we're on constant lookout for pilings, sheets of plywood (yes, we've seen that), and rebar (a running joke at my expense, but I swear it looked like rebar at first glance!).