South Bay Sailor Gets New Sailing Hat

Adam Brosamer from Menlo Park recently won a new hat. “Super-stoked to get your free hat offer in the latest issue,” Adam wrote. You may have guessed — Adam is one of our latest Golden Ticket winners. It seems we’re in one of those phases or phenomena in which winners are turning up nearly every week! The answer doesn’t really matter, though you can read about it here. What matters most is, “Who is Adam Brosamer?”

Adam, a member of the Sierra Point Yacht Club, tells us he began sailing on S.F. Bay in the early 2000s as crew aboard a J/35, “with an avid racer and encouraging skipper.” His experiences included offshore racing, Bay racing, and beer cans in the Oakland Estuary. “Then I had a Laser for a while and did some lake sailing, then a West Wight Potter 15.” And just last year he bought Fiver, a Catalina 27.

“Sailing relaxes me,” Adam tells us. “I love a good daysail, just eating sandwiches and seeing the Bay from the water. If you’re looking for excitement, you can usually find it. And sometimes it finds you.” He adds that one of his most memorable sailing moments was anchoring south of the Dumbarton Bridge with the Potter Yachters. “It gets pretty shallow down there, but we had a fun time in a rarely visited part of the Bay.”

We’re happy to say that Adam also shared his thoughts on our magazine, and it’s all good! “A big thanks for the wealth of local sailing knowledge and general boating information in your magazine. Every month, there is something cool to read in Latitude, usually in the Letters.” Thanks, Adam!

Adam requested a royal-blue Latitude hat and says he will “wear it with pride!”