HMB Race Rides and Details
HMB Racers & Race Committee. My wife Linda would like to join in on the HMB festivities Sat Night and sail back on Lightspeed Sunday. Several years back she did this by working on the race committee and getting a land ride to HMB. This was a lot of fun for us and an extra hand for the race committee. Perhaps this would be a great opportunity for spouses/significant others to experience the race & race committee, and joint everyone in HMB for the fun. With the race starting point still in progress maybe this a good place to start coordinating a HMB road trip....Rick/Lightspeed
Tranportation to Half Moon Bay Yacht Club
FYI - to those looking for rides to HMB - I know this takes little more time but it works - so if your land rider can get him/herself to BART, SAMTRANS buses leave Daly City Bart Station every hour on the hour on Saturday, the #110, and after about a 35 minute ride to Linda Mar, you can catch the #17 bus to El Granada/Princeton Landing another 20-25 minutes or so. The 17 leaves every two hours on even:37, so you are best to look at the schedules (make sure it is Saturday Southbound) on Samtrans to line up your timing to your preference.
For example - if you arrive at Daly City before 2:00 pm there is a #110 Sam Trans that leaves at 2pm and gets to Linda Mar Park n ride at 2:32; there is then a #17 that is scheduled to leave Linda Mar Park N Ride at 2:37pm that gets to near the HMBYC at 3:02pm. For my money I would take the #110 that arrives an hour earlier, hang out at the Taco Bell and watch the surfers or bring a pair of binocs to spy the fleet offshore for an hour just to make sure I didn't miss the connection with only a five minute window.
So, in other words I could be arriving at Daly City before 3pm, catching the 3pm #110 to Linda Mar arriving 3:32, hanging out or hanging ten for an hour until 4:37 when the next #17 shows up. If you are very trustful of the bus schedule and the driver's intentions to connect and make your bus experience the best ever, then take the 4:00 #110 from Daly City, arriving at 4:32 in Linda Mar and in perfect synchronicity you hop over onto the 4:37 #17.
That or you get TWO hours to rip curl instead of just one!
Good luck! :)
An alternative would be to pay for a cab from Daly City or Linda Mar - but that might get pricey...unless you can coordinate a group and split the cost.
