That’s one good thing about losing an hour of sleep for the time change.

Rowing on glass today. You can see from the smokestacks of C&H Sugar factory in Crockett across the Carquinez Strait that there was no wind as they are going straight up.

Starboard rollers give you an idea of how stable these whaleboats are. The tug boat in the distance caused these waves, but we’ve handled far bigger ones without issue. Usually we’re rowing through them so there’s no chance to film it unless I had my GoPro on.

Men’s row this morning had views of the women’s team boat again. This first shot of coxswain Tori Lin is my favorite this year so far. She was in this position naturally, but I made her pose this way again for the effect.

Was able to take pictures of the women’s team from the men’s boat. The strait was very choppy so the Skills boat stayed in the marina.

I participated in Saturday morning’s “skills row” for newbies with Solano Rowing Club. We always have some experienced rowers on the boat, particularly when we go out into the open water, although the conditions were amazing. I keep reminding myself how lucky we are to be in a place where we can do this year-round. Unfortunately, I didn’t have many opportunities to snap photos in this row. It was all over before I knew it.

Sunday morning’s row somehow allowed us to miss all the intermittent rain. I’m glad we didn’t cancel!

It was nice to be back in the water after the boats were cleaned, as it had been a few weeks for me. Besides the pictures above, I got some with Jim looking like an angel in front of the sun’s corona also after coxswain Tori pointed it out.

We DID see a seal, but the picture I got was just as the seal went underwater.  You can barely make it out in the middle of the photo.

We had a nice big loop over to Crockett/C&H Sugar Factory area and then under the bridge and back.