Waking up on a cool Northern cali morning does not entice one to don full dive gear and jump overboard in Drakes Bay to carve away 20 wraps of Spinnaker Sock snubbing line from the propeller shaft! Neither of my crew looked more eager than me so over I went in a 3mm wet suit...that first rush of cold water inside the neoprene invoked a involuntary gasping reflex...and my nuts ended up in my stomach! 15 minutes later the offending line was cut away, interesting to note that the shaft Zinc which was installed new in March at Westport in Sidney had disintegrated so much that it fell off the shaft...another future dive...before exiting I asked Ryan and Chris to engage forward gear just to make sure we had propulsion...well, not today. Several minutes of debating back in the cockpit (I don't like that word) with the floor up it appeared that when the shaft bound and stalled the engine out at sea we broke something deep inside the transmission...fiddling around with the gear shift we were able to select forward gear only and decided to see of we could limp to SF. 5 hours later, dodging tankers under the Golden gate Bridge and a lovely sail past Alcatraz, we quite skillfully found ourselves in Emeryville City Marina managing to make our assigned slip without any reverse thrust whatsoever! 9 days, 800 offshore miles, few events but safe and sound. Let the next saga begin...the repair of the Volvo Penta MD17C transmission! The picture is of Drakes Bay where Sir Francis supposedly stopped over in 1579