How NOT to enter San Francisco Bay

Now, I’m not an expert on the area, so any of my loyal readers who are, correct me if I’m wrong …

This link leads to a series of photos documenting a seriously inept sailboat captain’s attempt to enter San Francisco Bay:

http://photos.sfsurvey.com/sailH/index.asp

The photographer was out to take pictures of surfers making use of the great waves caused by the current south of the southern pier of the Golden Gate Bridge. According to everything I have read, a sailboat should never attempt to go south of the southern pier, and even if I didn’t know that, I would know that water that people are surfing in is probably not water that I would want to take a sailboat through. But apparently the skipper of this sailboat didn’t have that sort of common sense.

One of Pat’s and my ideas for the distant future (a.k.a. “retirement”) is that we have a boat that we keep in southern California, and we sail up to the Bay Area on a regular basis, so we want to make sure we avoid doing bonehead things like this sailor did. Edward, Zen, and anyone else from that part of the world, we welcome tips and advice.