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    Hey Gamayun,

    Did the powers that be do some dredging in Clipper Cove? I went in there and anchored the night of my LongPac finish and the bottom looked super flat and about 10 feet away. It may have been high tide but I saw 3.5 feet on my DS the last time I was there. I don't think there is 7 foot of tidal range but maybe I am wrong. Anyway, just wondering about any dredging activity. Clipper is my favorite anchorage but the shallows have gotten pretty bad in recent years.

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    Man, I wish! No such dredging is likely to happen for years still, and I just saw a petition on Facebook wanting the development plans to go out for an updated review because the marina is going to take up more space in the cove. I'll have long left the docklines behind before that place is upgraded.

    You should still be careful at low tides, especially below 1' as measured at Yerba Buena for my 5.5-ft draft, and then continue to hug the shore line on the TI side when you come in. I have an app called Tides Near Me that I use. Right now, it is showing a low this morning (0253) of 0.8' and a high at 2039 of 6.2' so there's your 7 feet of tidal range. It is crazy how much we get in there, but that's probably not unusual for the whole bay in the summer months, right? It's the only place that I pay close attention to so not sure what others are experiencing. From my dock, there's a "special rock" that I look at to see whether it is submerged before going out, and then coming back in, I look for a pipe that runs horizontal along the pier at the entrance to Clipper Cove. If it's peeking above the water, I have to rock the boat to get through. If it's totally exposed, then we settle in for wine and cheese before returning to the dock

    The next time you're in there, ask the harbor master for the soundings and the best route to take in and out. They have a map from around 2014, I think, that would be insightful. It's a great place to anchor, if you're armed with a good tide chart!!
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    Well, hope springs eternal.

    Thank goodness it was high tide. If I had run into the mud I'd have anchored in 5 feet of water and said to heck with it.

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    " I briefly consider whether I should feel stood up. "


    Jackie, sorry to stand you up, it's not you, it's me...really!
    All kidding aside,

    I had the radio on but didn't catch your hail. I had decided to head further out and rounded Alcatraz to port by way of Point Bonita. Saw lots of spinnakers coming at me as the Duxbury/Lightship racers were returning. Finished up the day by rounding Red Rock, leaving it to port.

    Couple of issues as the day unfolded. Working my way towards the north tower and tacking onto starboard I wound up with a jib sheet wrap from hell. Was able to heave to and get untangled. Next, after rounding Red Rock, wind light around 10, tiller pilot keeping course after the car hauler ship passes, took the pause that refreshes, grabbed a snack and WHAM!! what the hell was that! Did we hit bottom? Is water coming in? Then the channel marker glides past to port. Dammit! Thought we were set to well clear that. Should have looked sooner. ya ya ya. Put a dinger in the bow that will take a little glass work to clean up.

    All together sailed 42nm in 6h40m.

    Glad you had a good sail Jackie. Gonna have to take a shot at that record!

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    All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it is vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

    T.E. Lawrence

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    It’s Friday and a crystal clear day. That will change later when the haze from the Lake Country fires drifts down, but @ 11 am, as I motor out of the Berkeley Marina, it seems like I can reach out and touch the City. “The sun is out. The sky is blue. It’s beautiful and so are you.” That kind of day.

    Where to go? It’s about 12 knots. Bob’s in Tahoe with his family. Carliane is doing her taxes. Brian is currently incommunicado. DM, let’s sail over toward Marin. It’s going to be a 5.1 knot flood @ 1pm. Let’s practice flood relief at the mouth of Raccoon Straits. Why not. See how close we can get to the edge of the eastern side of Marin, wadya say?

    I aim for Angel Island and by the time we’re over there the flood has pushed us north of Southampton Shoal. Hello, San Quentin, here we come. Tack to port and we work our way south along the Marin shore back to the entrance to the Straits. Then we get pushed north again. It’s a lovely day, we don’t care which way we go. How close can we get to the shore? The fish finder/depth finder says we have plenty of depth real close. Tack, tack, then tack again trying to catch an opposite current along the shore. Real close. We don’t make much headway, but once out in that flood we go 5 knots north fast rather than 2.4 knots against it. It’s an experiment.

    I read Kimball Livingston’s “Sailing the Bay” at least once a year. I learn something new every time, and then I go out on the water and try it out on DM.

    Oh, look! There’s a fishing boat with two guys in it, leaning back on their elbows watching while they troll slowly close by. They watch Dura Mater tacking back and forth: like watching a ping pong game, their heads go back and forth. I wave. They wave back. Enough with the tacking. There’s plenty of wind to get into Raccoon Straits, over to Ayala Cove. It really is a perfect day for sailing. But hey, what would make it better? A cup of coffee. So I sail over toward the lee of Angel Island. On the way I see a nauticat with only its jib and mizzen sails up. Is it Daniel on Galaxsea? How many nauticats can there be coming out of Richmond? I meander over and wave. Four heads pop up, but no Daniel. Four fellas out for a mid-week sail, just like me. I wave again. They wave and hang over the edge, having a good time.

    I make coffee and put it in my biggest cup, the one least likely to spill. Then I put in a second reef. It may be calm east of Angel Island, but sailing back to Berkeley in the afternoon in August is always easier with less sail. As I head across the water the wind picks up a bit, but hoo wee! It is really hot out here! So I make some slight clothing adjustments and get about an hour of sunshine on my legs. And there's another reason to singlehand: when I want to sail across the Olympic Circle in my underwear? Dura Mater? She don’t care.
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    I'm jealous! I had an old Lightning on a trailer here in South Carolina, but had not gotten around to modifying its mast step and thrudeck partners to accommodate a new aluminum mast i had bought years ago. But I finally decided I would never get around to fixing it, so gave it away a couple of months ago. So have nothing to get out on the water with here....A there's Harrier waiting to go to Hawaii...

    As for your last sentence, I am reminded of the Eagles first big hit and the words that follow "standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona"....
    Fair Winds Ken

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    ("Such a fine sight to see.") No biggie - I'm told that's EYRIE's normal treatment for boat butt.

    We're back. Lake Tahoe doesn't appear to be down much except when you see the docks at south shore and the shallow entrance to Emerald Bay. The flat-bottomed (faux) paddlewheelers can still get through the entrance, along with the ubiquitous ski boats.

    Near the west end of Emerald Bay sits Fannette Island, the only island anywhere in Lake Tahoe. I'd never been on the island so we rented kayaks and paddled out there. It reminded me of a (very short) Hawaii race in one respect - it was a quick paddle downwind to reach the island but a much harder paddle to get back. It was gusting well into the twenties down the cliffs but fortunately a kayak presents a very small area to the wind.

    The only obvious man-made feature on the island is the Tea House, built by the island's owner solely to provide a place to serve high tea to guests visiting her Vikingsholm guest house, on the shore near the island. Must be nice. Somebody should buy Red Rock (last listed for $3 million) and build a tea house on it.

    Despite all the exercise the back is still stiff. (I even took a water aerobics class where I was the sole male.) I'll look at the wonderful offshore equipment list again and try to decide if I want to gear up (literally) for Drake's Bay next weekend.

    About Fannette Island

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    Nice, Jackie!

    We need a calendar on the SSS to coordinate ad hoc sailing schedules. I know, I know, that's so un-SSS-like, but it would have been fun to have gotten out on Kynntana. I rarely just go out and sail alone unless it's in a race, which is how I am learning the bay. Whenever I go out for a meandering sail, it's with guests on board. You're an inspiration

    Have a great race to Drake's!! If the weather is calm, I'll be diving in Monterey; if it's blustery and surgy, I might join you. We can share tacking strategies around that $%&*# Bonita channel buoy

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    With SSS friends exploring shorelines of Tiburon, Tahoe, and Cape Flattery (thanks, VOID STAR, for an illuminating account), this is sleddog checking in from the shores of Monterey Bay:

    36 years ago I was at sea on IMP, negotiating 40 foot breaking waves in the tragic '79 Fastnet Race Storm. With yesterday's record temp in Santa Cruz of 101 degrees, it seemed a good choice to celebrate Life making an early morning attempt at traversing the low tide shoreline between Capitola Beach and New Brighton Beach State Park.

    To catch the low tide, I began hiking before sunrise. The shoreline was temporarily missing about 2 vertical feet of sand. To my left (north) were the 80' high Depot Hill Cliffs, famous for their million year old fossils, including ancient clams, moon snails, and whale bones.

    Ahead, the missing sand exposed rocky going. I negotiated tide pools and rocks slippery with intensely green moss. Anenomes ringed many of the rocks. Just offshore, as the sun rose directly ahead, a pod of Harbor porpoise did their circular routine, presumably rounding up a breakfast of fresh anchovies.

    A fresh rockfall from the cliffs above nudged me into the low surf line. This section of cliff is losing about 1 foot per year, a reminder that Nature bats last, and the West Coast is slowing, but inexorably rising from the sea.

    It was good to notice the area ban on styrofoam and single use plastic bags seemed to be having an effect. I was only able to retrieve one piece of plastic on the 1/2 mile hike.

    After 30 minutes of scrambling, I reached "China Beach" at New Brighton State Park. Two miles ahead lay the mirage of the Cement Ship. The sand beach, soon to be covered by hundreds of visitors, was deserted at this hour. I decided to walk barefooted in the sand towards the Cement Ship.

    Just offshore there was a bird riot going on. A couple of thousand gulls, terns, pelicans, and cormorants were engaging in a feeding frenzy. The chatter all but drowned out the sound of the small surf a few feet to my right (south)

    A couple of curious Harbor Seals poked their heads as they swam along, looking for all the world like seagoing black labs.

    45 minutes later, the Cement Ship at Sea Cliff State Beach was abeam. I rounded a wharf piling to port, and began walking back (west) towards Capitola. Now the sun was at my back, and I wasn't squinting so much. The beach was still empty, except for a few joggers and dog walkers. A portion of the beach was white with down fluff and feathers from all the bird life. Walking in down. An interesting concept.

    When I reached China Beach again, it was too late, tide wise, to retrace my steps along the Fossil Cliffs. I turned inland and ascended the trail to the top of the Cliffs, being careful to avoid the bright red poison oak.

    At the top of the cliff I followed the railroad tracks home, the vista of Monterey Bay laid out below.

    A light seabreeze is already blowing. Today should be cooler. I've got morning coffee brewing in the galley.

    SSS'ers. Come visit Capitola anytime. I'd be glad to share our pretty shoreline.

    ~sleddog
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    As per the title, Sailing Tomorrow. Is anyone else interested in coming out? Maybe to Sam's? Shouldn't be jammed on a weekday, right?

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