(Larger Image)Shock! Finally a picture of my boat (Ericson 27) under sail. Thanks goes to Fred for this picture and others in this post. I’m posting last weekend trip really late but here it is anyways. As I recall, Larry and the Courter brothers went on the Plummers (Catalina 30) to fly their symmetric kite. The wind was blowing about 15-18 knots with gusts slightly higher as four boats sailed east on the Sacramento river. Mike Barron (Pearson 30), Plummers, Steve and Martha (Beneteau 323), with Brenda and I in our yellow stripped Ericson 27 (my dad painted it yellow, I hate yellow…). The Beneteau and Ericson went up Broad Slough on the eastern side while Barron sailed up the west hugging Winter Island. Cloud 9, last to leave the barn, followed us on the east side but midway crossed over the bar pointing westward “like a big dawg.” They clipped the point passing everyone onto the Sacramento. We turned westward behind the Beneteau and slugged through the waves all the way to Pittsburg. We couldn’t catch Steve and Martha and the other boats were shrinking on the horizon. About and mile east of Chipps Island we closed in on the Beneteau. Her head sail rolled up and main flogging it was obvious Steve had a problem. Apparently his finger got caught in a line while pulling out the reef for the trip back. It was still attached to his hand when he passed close enough to tell us about it. We all turned downwind, the Plummers flew the kite and beat us all back to Antioch.