If you have your own foul weather gear, gloves, inflatable lifejacket w/harness and strobe and you know clockwise from counterclockwise and don't throw up...or know what drugs to take to keep from throwing up.....you can pretty much find rides all over the place on the Bay and the Gulf of the Farallones.
Oh, a positive attitude helps, as does not being a tiller hog, and remembering who pays the boat bills.
Intermediate -level foul weather gear $350 a set
gloves... $20 a pair
polypro undies, tops and bottoms.... $40
boat shoes.... $60
inflatable lifejacket with harness.... $150
safety tether to attach to harness..... $50
total investment (not including sexy sunglasses and tote bag and hat inscribed with favorite sailmakers logo) about $675 and you're set for a couple of years.
1968 Selmer Series 9 B-flat and A clarinets
1962 Buesher "Aristocrat" tenor saxophone
Piper One Design 24, Hull #35; "Alpha"