Green Rosetta Voyages and Other Trivia

My friend David and I have been talking about sailing together for over a year, so as soon as Helga and I bought Green Rosetta, David started planning the visit. David and his wife Anna Marie live in Alberta, Canada, so it's not just a hop, skip, and a jump. In September, they flew into San Francisco, did a little sightseeing, and joined us that afternoon. Our overall plan was to sail up to the Vallejo Yacht Club Saturday, stay there overnight, and sail back to Richmond on Sunday. We got an early start Saturday morning. We sailed out into San Francisco bay, and since it was a few hours until we were going to switch from an ebb to a flood tide we decided to head down Raccoon Strait and go out under the Golden Gate Bridge first. San Pablo Bay is a nice relaxing sail, but it takes about three hours to sail the length of it with the tide; adding an hour or more for going against the tide takes the trip from "relaxing" to "boring". Great picture of t...

The Vallejo Yacht Club, guest dock, veranda, clubhouse, and race committee lookout. There are four marinas that are, more or less, on the San Francisco Bay that you can access without having to cross the Carquinez Bridge on I-80 or take Route 37 across the north bay. They are the Vallejo Municipal Marina, the Benicia Marina, the Glen Cove Marina, and the Vallejo Yacht Club. We were looking for a place as close as possible to northern Nevada to keep our boat.  Yes, we could keep the boat in Sacramento, CA or Stockton, CA, but we were planning to own a sail boat, and while the waters are navigable all the way to the ocean, rivers mean motoring for sail boats. Benicia has extremely restrictive rules about over-nighting on your boat on weekends; strike Benicia. Glen Cove marina is really nice, small, and slightly out-of-the-way. It's nice enough some people had booked it for a wedding during the time we were checking it out. But the water was a bit shallow for the 7'6...

December 2017 Schedule Three quarters of the intrepid crew, Dan and Helga, Jim at the helm. Nevada Day weekend.Headed from Vallejo to Jack London Square marina, just after we went under the I-580 bridge. Photo credit to Ken, the other 1/4 of the crew.  Thanks, Ken! All sailing on hold while Jim recovers from surgery. 12/22 - 01/01/18 Sailing restrictions are starting to lift   12/22     Do something with our sailing buddies Frank and Jane 12/23     No special plans, prep for our trip to Redwood City 12/24     Sail to Redwood City Municipal Marina 12/25     Christmas Day with friends in Menlo Park 12/26     Sail back to Richmond 12/27     On the boat, no special plans 12/28     On the boat, no special plans 12/29     More sailing with our buddies Frank and Jane 12/30     D...