Sorry I havent written sooner, thanks to everyone that have posted comments it's great to hear from you.
Well we left Bodega Bay and cruised down to Drakes Bay behind Reyes Point, much better protected than Bodega Bay, stayed 2 days then picked the tide and current to cross the potato patch and into the San Francisco Bay, LaVon says the "Golden Arches maybe Gold but the Golden Gate Bridge is RED!!"
Went into Sausalito, stopped to see the broker that we used when we bought this boat, not much in Sausalito, marina was $1 a foot so we called SF Yacht Club to use our recipriocal---$1 a ft with a recipriocal, no thanks so we cruised up to Vallejo YC, really nice people. Vallejo is "recipriocal," you pay what your club charges.
We signed up to stay 2 days got lots of information about cruising the Delta, walked downtown and did the foo foo shops, when we returned the boat smelled, checked it out and I had a battery overcharging because of a dead cell, had lots of offers to haul us around to get a battery, found one but it would be Mon. before we could get it, another member ran us up to the local chandlery to pick up a chart of the Delta up to Sacramento, we stayed Sat. for their dinner and met some visiting members from Loch Lomond YC and got an invitation to stop at their club on the way back. Went over to the city marina to get fuel, cheapest in the area, $2.499 with a Boat US discount, 400gal for 99.8 HRS of running = 4 gal per HR
I can't say enough about the hospitality at Vallejo YC!
We had our battery delivered Mon. AM and headed up river, should have waited another hour or two, they have real currents here in the river, we had a 3knt current against us for the next 5 HRS. We did pull into Suisun Bay and cruise around the Pacific Mothballed Fleet, then on up to Pittsburg YC, wind waves and small swells all of the way. I was hoping we would get out of some of the 10kt to 15kt winds, no such luck, my first clue was the miles and miles of wind powered generators along the north shore and inland---but we did find sunshine!
I'll try to write more often.
Irv & LaVon
Well we left Bodega Bay and cruised down to Drakes Bay behind Reyes Point, much better protected than Bodega Bay, stayed 2 days then picked the tide and current to cross the potato patch and into the San Francisco Bay, LaVon says the "Golden Arches maybe Gold but the Golden Gate Bridge is RED!!"
Went into Sausalito, stopped to see the broker that we used when we bought this boat, not much in Sausalito, marina was $1 a foot so we called SF Yacht Club to use our recipriocal---$1 a ft with a recipriocal, no thanks so we cruised up to Vallejo YC, really nice people. Vallejo is "recipriocal," you pay what your club charges.
We signed up to stay 2 days got lots of information about cruising the Delta, walked downtown and did the foo foo shops, when we returned the boat smelled, checked it out and I had a battery overcharging because of a dead cell, had lots of offers to haul us around to get a battery, found one but it would be Mon. before we could get it, another member ran us up to the local chandlery to pick up a chart of the Delta up to Sacramento, we stayed Sat. for their dinner and met some visiting members from Loch Lomond YC and got an invitation to stop at their club on the way back. Went over to the city marina to get fuel, cheapest in the area, $2.499 with a Boat US discount, 400gal for 99.8 HRS of running = 4 gal per HR
I can't say enough about the hospitality at Vallejo YC!
We had our battery delivered Mon. AM and headed up river, should have waited another hour or two, they have real currents here in the river, we had a 3knt current against us for the next 5 HRS. We did pull into Suisun Bay and cruise around the Pacific Mothballed Fleet, then on up to Pittsburg YC, wind waves and small swells all of the way. I was hoping we would get out of some of the 10kt to 15kt winds, no such luck, my first clue was the miles and miles of wind powered generators along the north shore and inland---but we did find sunshine!
I'll try to write more often.
Irv & LaVon
You guys are awesome! Here in Montana, spring has sprung and it's only the middle of June so I look forward to SUNSHINE anyway I can get it - I'll be watching ..... Janet
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