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The Cruise Out Is Back

The cormorants floorboards lift up and fit into grooves in the seats so that there's a queen-bed-sized platform above the bilge for sleeping. The boat has oarlocks, it can be rowed, and there's storage under the foredeck for a little outboard. This is not a go-fast dinghy at all, but they're really stable and extremely popular with the Dinghy Cruising Association in the UK.
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Cornish Cormorant review: This day boat feels much longer than 12ft

Once on board a Cornish Cormorant, you won’t believe that this stable, attractive cat-rigged dinghy is only 12ft in length...
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If I wasn't already committed to buying the daysailer, I'd buy the Cormorant. Oh, my lugsail is white, not red.

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If you all decide on Half Moon Bay I might trailer the little boat out there and meet y'all.

Oh, and....you're welcome, Bob!

IS there an online font of SSS activity now? I still, technically have a FB account because I made the FB page for my orchestra as part of my account rather than it's own thing, but I more or less never log on there but to update orchestra information.
 
I used to post here WAY too much. Then my photos wouldn't post, the responses declined a lot and I moved over to Faceplant. Now that's filled with absolute crap that has choked out the posts from friends and pages I follow. I recently deleted FB from devices where I couldn't filter out the crap. It's tolerable on my computer only because of FBPurity, a PC browser extension that will filter out nearly everything I don't choose to see.

After Bryan's work to upgrade the forum, I've been thinking about reviving my Surprise! thread. But I don't want to just be talking to myself. I do that enough already!
 
I found that I was spending too much time arguing on Facebook with people whom I mostly like, personally, but whose politics I find abhorrent. After getting really angry a few times, with people whom I might see twice a year, if that, I realized that the benefit didn't outweigh the disadvantages. Also, I'm not keen on Zuck or FB's method of business. I joined BlueSky but I'm talking to myself there, and it's a political echo chamber. I can't find any sailing or real classical or jazz music chitchat on BlueSky.

So I still check here, now and again.

Also, I might be back as crew on a DH Jeanneau 34, at least for the Bay races. Races outside the Gate now require so much safety equipment...all good stuff but lots of boat $$. that we probably won't do those.
 
I reconnoitered the Glen Cove Marina in Vallejo this afternoon, thinking it could be a good destination for a combined (big boat) cruise-out and (small boat) RAID. For the latter, you could launch at Benicia's 9th Street ramp, 2 nm downwind or at the Benicia Marina ramp, 3.5 nm downwind. There's almost always breeze and that end of Carquinez Strait doesn't get too choppy (he said). The location is actually in "Elliot Cove" on Chart 18655.

The marina is quaint and quiet, with plenty of lawn area. There's an ample guest dock (buck-a-foot per night). It adjoins the Bay Trail so you could enjoy a short hike around to the Carquinez bridge or the other way through the Benicia State Park (we've done both). Or you could get married - the old lighthouse has been spruced up and is a popular wedding venue. In fact the guest dock can be used only when there's not an event in the lighthouse building.

It would be a good destination for small boats but it's currently too shallow along the guest dock for bigger ones - I sounded it and got only four feet at low water. They're scheduled to dredge in mid-November so maybe late in the year or next Spring would work.

Randy would be interested to know there are at least two Westsail 32s in the marina, including Sunquest (SHTP Class of 2008).
 

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Glen Cove looks great! Dura Mater doesn't mind sitting in the mud for a few hours. Or we can anchor out, row over to the guest dock.
 

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The Jeanneau 34 I did the Vallejorace on overnighted at Glen Cove but we didn't have particularly low tides.
 
BobJ said:
I reconnoitered the Glen Cove Marina in Vallejo this afternoon, thinking it could be a good destination for a combined (big boat) cruise-out and (small boat) RAID. For the latter, you could launch at Benicia's 9th Street ramp, 2 nm downwind or at the Benicia Marina ramp, 3.5 nm downwind. There's almost always breeze and that end of Carquinez Strait doesn't get too choppy (he said). The location is actually in "Elliot Cove" on Chart 18655.

The marina is quaint and quiet, with plenty of lawn area. There's an ample guest dock (buck-a-foot per night). It adjoins the Bay Trail so you could enjoy a short hike around to the Carquinez bridge or the other way through the Benicia State Park (we've done both). Or you could get married - the old lighthouse has been spruced up and is a popular wedding venue. In fact the guest dock can be used only when there's not an event in the lighthouse building.

It would be a good destination for small boats but it's currently too shallow along the guest dock for bigger ones - I sounded it and got only four feet at low water. They're scheduled to dredge in mid-November so maybe late in the year or next Spring would work.

Randy would be interested to know there are at least two Westsail 32s in the marina, including Sunquest (SHTP Class of 2008).
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Thanks for checking out the Marina! Looks cool.
If we end up going there I’ll let Cosmo, the new owner of Sunquest know. Was the other W32 named Sosiego?
 
Yes. I didn't walk every dock so there may have been more - they're everywhere!

There's no food in walking distance - just pureed at the overlooking assisted living center (sorry). But we could do DoorDash or cook our own.

I'm about to go up to the Delta so I may stop in there by boat.
 
shoot..... September 13th works out perfectly tide-wise for a cruise to Glen Cove (and beyond) but that's the HMB race.

I might volunteer for RC and then trailer the daysailer out to HMB. and meet y'all coming in.
 
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Hmmmm
Stray thought... and maybe bad idea...
Leverage the Vallejo 1-2... get non racers to sail to Vallejo... RAIDers come from where ever to Vallejo (I sailed RYC to Vallejo in my Laser 8 years ago... same time as V 1-2 - so I had company should something go amiss, I only went swimming once). The non racers are potential "sag wagons" for the RAIDers (as Jackie was...).
And get the SHTPers to show up so we can get the inside skinny over a cold one.
Now can I get the Buffalo seaworthy by the V 1-2? Or take my Laser again?
 
(Copied from the "Raid" thread) With the Vallejo 1-2 on 10/4-10/5, I'm looking at 10/17-10/19 or 10/31-11/2 for Petaluma, mostly to time the high tides at the entrance to the Petaluma River from San Pablo Bay.

Small boats could consider using the ramp at Lakeville Landing and paddling or sailing the 5.5 nm up the Petaluma River to the turning basin. This would be a beautiful trip. You need to give four hour's notice to open the D Street Bridge (5' vertical clearance when closed). The big boats will need to do that anyway and maybe some coordination/towing could be arranged.

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Thank you for picking potential dates, Mr Johnston. I. Am. In. with my "big" boat, the sailing vessel Dura Mater. I suppose that means two boats on the water so that means DM and I will try to go fast until we don't.

It is good to be able to start personally inviting all my favorite sailors to come on their favorite boats.
 
It's October - time to get this organized! They are scheduled to start dredging up there so I need to make sure there won't be a dredge/barge in our way.

I'm inclined to plan it for the 17th-19th in case there's bad weather and we need to postpone. Once we're into November it's harder to schedule anything. Are any small boats serious about going?
 
I heard back from the City of Petaluma:

"The City is still working on getting dredging dates for the Turning-Basin, and at this time, we are unable to guarantee moorage for October 17-19. My recommendation would be to avoid the Turning-Basin and the Petaluma River from October to December, since there will likely be delays passing the dredging equipment on the River, and the possibility of being denied access to the Turning-Basin."

Plan B?
 
It's high tide (+6') at YBI at 1100 on Saturday the 18th, and again on Sunday at 1130. I don't know what's going on with the Clipper Cove construction, or whether those who'd want to get ashore would be able to. But otherwise I'd say that works.

Landlubbers could even come over on the TI ferry and one of us with a little boat could bring them out to the raft-up and if they behave themselves, take them back.

Has anyone checked this out? Off the Grid TI
 
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