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Hanalei Bay is a beautiful, large, open bay. During the winter they hold surfing competitions here but during the summer it is a calm anchorage. Many cruisers take off for the mainland from here.
It has a very long sand beach, a quaint little town and lots of greenery.
We enjoyed exploring the area with our friends Steve and Robin on s/v Solar Wind.
There was a great farmers market. A mad scramble to get the limited produce as soon as they opened the gate.
Robin ordered a basket. The craftsman wove it while we watched and then made her a bonus fish on a pole.
We left Hanalei on July 4, 1990 and headed back to San Francisco Bay. Here Marc takes what he thinks is a final dunk in mid-ocean before the water gets too cold.
He soon finds out how cold that water really is. We snag a net on our rudder and someone needs to dive and cut it off. We draw straws and Marc loses. Later we snag another net and Tom loses but just before he is ready to jump in, the net comes off and drifts away.
Toms luck soon runs out though when a halyard chafes through and someone needs to go up the mast. Not an easy task at sea even with relatively calm seas.
One day we wake up to finds the ocean littered with these little 'sailing' creatures. They had a bottom kind of like a keel and a hard fin on top that acted like a sail. Still don't know what they were.
For the most part, our passage to SF was very easy. Our friends Steve and Robin who were headed for Seattle got pounded.
We ended up sailing about 10,000 miles in our cruise that lasted almost 2 years. Here is the personal junk that we took off the boat in Berkeley and shipped to our home in Boise. Not it was time to get back to work and earn enough to go out again!
