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Article: On sail this month.(San Francisco sailing information)(Brief Article)
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- Sunset
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- April 1, 2001
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Be captain for a day on San Francisco Bay
* On my debut sail on San Francisco Bay at age 11, I boarded a dinghy with a friend and shoved off from the Tiburon peninsula's north shore. The wind filled our little sail, then died. Drifting, our boat bobbed directly toward San Quentin State Prison. A voice boomed from shore, "Steer clear or risk arrest!"
Neither of us wanted a police record just yet. But we were powerless. Then we remembered the bay was only a few feet deep there. So we dodged the law--by walking the boat home.
These days, I turn to more reliable sources for boating on the bay: charter services. Admittedly, chartering a boat with a ...