Took off at about 11:30 from work to go sailing. It looked a little discouraging as it was hot, still and humid with high clouds. We got to the boat and discovered one of my dock lines was almost completely severed. The swell at pier 39 is incredible! I had some guests stay overnight on the boat and they got somewhat sea sick in the dock! We shoved off at about 12:30 with little to no wind. Out on the bay the wind was better about 7 knots. We raised that main and jib and Bryan noticed that the Head of the Jib didn't unfurl correctly (I have a roller furling main). We tried a number of things to fix this: rolled it in and out, fractionally lowered the main and such. Nothing seemed to untwist it. So I brought the main all the way down. Even on deck I had to use channel locks to untwist it. The fabric was twisted and 2 folds couldn't fit through the slot, but eventually working it back and forth I was able to straighten it out. We then started raising the sail and of course the wind then increased to about 15 knots. We had to turn on the motor and turn the boat into the wind to be able to raise it. We had a lot of difficulty as the bolt rope kept coming out of the groove.
After it was up we sailed to the gate. The wind at the gate was 24 knots. I recently had the rigging re-done and the boat felt more balanced then it ever had before. We turned around under the gate and reached back to pier 39.
We heard a call on the radio about a Santana 27 on the rocks near the Berkeley marina. He was calling Vessel assist. The asked if he was in danger. Some idiot also on channel 16 was trying to get a guest slip at pier 39 and kept answering that he wasn't in danger and just wanted a slip. Eventually Vessel Assist got the message that he was in danger and the Coast guard immediately cut in and said they would take care of it.
The wind died again near Pier 39 but it was a great 2 1/2 hour sail.
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