Hagan Time

Today, August 10th, the crew of Hagen Time was awoken at a sharp 7 o’clock. Intense house music blasted on the speakers of the boat at full volume as each crew member slowly rose from their deep slumber. But even though that might not seem like a great wake-up, it was for us. This was because it wasn’t a night where half of us were waking up to rain at 5 in the morning and intruding on the indoor sleepers as we loudly hopped down the stairs with our rain-painted sleepy sacks. As we started the day strong, we feasted on some delicious cereal, which was followed by a hasty cleanup by Paul and Robbie. While this was happening, all of the skippers of the day were being delivered to our sailing vessel for a meeting. It was on our boat because Annika is “top dawg skipper”. This meeting was orchestrated for the sailing day ahead of us. As all the skippers sat around the table scouting the racing course for the first race, Felix was above all of them, peering in through the top hatch above them, listening in. After the meeting, Maeve, the skipper of the day, quickly briefed her crew on the course. The big dawgs rallied us into a circle to get us hype for a day full of competitive sailing.

As the sun started to rise more to the west, the intensity grew as we transformed our PFDs into ALPHA mode. Sadie and Bhoomie gracefully and smoothly pulled up the anchor. As we approached the starting line, the main sail was up, and now all that mattered was the jib. Eli courageously and majestically pulled the sheet of the jib from the mast to make us a little extra speedy. This helped Rowan because he was also heaving the jib sheet but from the winch. While they were doing that, Sophia was port side, gracefully and delicately easing the jib. Then Rowan got bored, so he spear fished for around five minutes and caught half the sea, including a megalodon! Noa didn’t burn herself on the pan today 👏👏👏👏👏. Anyways, we sailed all the way to the finish line with Maeve attempting to steer the helm with great precision all the way. We won that race in our hearts, our souls, and our minds. After that, we sailed to where Hagen Time first met and docked there.

Sienna, Sophia, Noa, Robbie, Rowan, Niko, and Maeve started their shore time with a nice refreshing cup of iced coffee at a little cafe, where we later decided to eat a delicious lunch. While they were doing that, Felix, Paul, and Eli stocked up on some sodas. They later dispersed, with Felix hanging out with people from Harbor House and Paul and Eli walking around and getting bracelets. Bhoomie, Noa, Maeve, Sienna, Sophia, and Robbie walked around and got a bunch of pretty bracelets and photographs. Niko and Rowan roamed around, where Niko found a very cute gift for her mother. After our much-appreciated land time, Hagen Time regrouped back at the boat while Maeve got to attend another skipper meeting about the next sailing race. After recharging on land, the crew was ready for the next race.

Everything was the same; however, Rowan and Eli switched spots upon putting up the jib. For the next two hours, we sailed on into the ocean blue. The sail was a very fun sail which consisted of line dancing and singing loudly to Moana. Our performance in the race was impeccable, and the crew was very proud. Arriving at our next anchorage called Fischer Point, we immediately Ocean showered and got ready for the splendid dinner being cheffed up by Rowan and Noa, where they used a machete to cut the food. Niko absolutely LOVED Mexican night, as we all did. We all feasted on the amazing dinner prepared for us along with a couple extra guests at our dinner table. We had an amazing squeeze which ended in a dance party involving flashing lights to James’ AMAZING song production. We are known in the fleet as the hype boat, so we have to keep up our rep. Clean up then commenced after that. Then we needed the night with an awesome game of sailing review jeopardy.