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Hello all, Sonya here!
I have been meaning to share this achievement with you guys, and with a rainy day like today there's no excuse but to crank out a quick video to share with you!

A while back I woke up one morning & decided that I was going to attempt to take our boat, Gemini, to the pompout dock & back by myself - no one else onboard.

Here's a quick video of my experience & thoughts on practicing solo docking/sailing.


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Closed Captions (CC):
all right so it is a rainy day here in

Emeryville and we are just taking the

day to do a couple good projects and I

figured it was a perfect opportunity to

throw together a quick little video of

my solo docking experience on Gemini so

the first time I docked by myself and it

was pretty empowering and I'm excited to

share it with you guys all right enjoy

morning guys it's Sunday and Jack just

left to go check out a client's boat and

I am about to go to the pump out by

myself for the very first time I

consider myself to be pretty experienced

and I feel pretty comfortable with

Gemini maneuvering her and everything

but I've actually never done it without

jack on board so it's really calm out

today and I'm gonna go give it a shot

of course the one time I wanted my GoPro

to get some great footage it wasn't

recording alright guys I made it to the

pump out dock halfway there let's see if

I can make it home check it out our slip

is over there it's not really that far

at all but

I tried to back her in like we normally

do but without the extra hands and my

nerves on edge it was a little difficult

so I decided to go bow in

made it back to the dock success well I

am back in the slit I would say that was

a success and I feel really good right

now I'm kind of pumping with adrenaline

I went really low and slow the whole way

back from the dock and tried twice to to

do this brown and back her in but just

didn't quite line it up right so I

figured why not just go simple with the

bow in docking today since it's my first

time being all alone on the boat but I

felt really good and honestly she she

turns on a dime I didn't feel

uncomfortable I just felt like I didn't

didn't have any extra hands which is the

one thing that's kind of hard but for

all you fellow sailors out there if

you've never gone to to another dock on

your boat by herself try it out she's a

really nice calm warning and go see see

how you feel cuz you never know when

you're gonna need to be by yourself on

your boat and I want to be able to feel

like I can do everything that Jack can

do

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