We go out, we come back.
That part is consistent.
Everything else tends to vary.
The marina falls behind, the boat finds its angle, the city does its usual thing in the background.
Someone adjusts to the motion, someone else figures out where to sit. It settles quickly.
Somewhere along the way, things loosen up.
The conversation begins wandering in directions it probably wouldn’t have reached on land.
A question lands and doesn’t go away.
A story goes a bit longer than expected.
Someone says something that shifts the direction slightly, and it keeps going from there.
It rarely stays where it started.
That’s the part we like best.
Not trying to be.
It’s not a networking event.
No one’s pitching anything.
No structure, no schedule, nothing to prepare.
You don’t need to know how to sail.
The people are usually easy to recognize.
They’ve spent time around tech.
Built things, shipped things, thought about things longer than necessary.
If that sounds like your kind of afternoon, Let's go sailing!