I did my first shift of the year as Dockmaster for the DSC Wednesday Member Sail. Temperature was around 60 degrees, and the weather was initially drizzly, gradually increasing to steady rain as the evening wore on. Turnout was relatively low due to the weather, but since the cruising program was hosting a social event afterwards, we had three cruising skippers show up, which allowed us to take out three cruising boats, with 10 people divided up among them, while the rest went out on two J/22s.
Rebekah kindly offered to take me on a mentoring session on Akimbo, which I accepted, so I had a chance to practice going through the pre-departure and post-return checklists, departing from the dock, and docking, and we had some time to go out to Northwest Harbor, raise the sails, sail out to Canton and round the NH buoy, then come back to Domino Sugar before lowering/furling the sails again. Despite the SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY predicting gusts up to 20 knots, winds were very light around 4-5 knots, so it was slow going most of the way, though it did make docking quite simple.
Afterwards, a bunch of us soggy sailors trod down to Little Havana to meet up with some others for drinks and sailing stories.