This weekend, Yours Truly and Mrs. Alan took the skerry, "Vingilothiel" out for a row, as the skipper hasn't finished the sailing rig, yet. Launch time at 10:30 at the Redwood City Municipal ramp was followed by three hours leisurely row around Redwood Creek. I report that Sail la Vie is still floating. Yamaha 26's still look good to me, if very IOR'ish.
We rowed up the creek past a little inlet in the bank that I've never been able to get into before, so we explored that, enjoying the sight of a cormorant perched on an old piling, drying his wings. From there we scooted down past the Peninsula Marina, now closed. We took a detour into the old basin and rowed around for old times sake. Then off we went, and past Docktown to the Bair Island Aquatic Center....now completely a rowing center, which is where I bought my old Santana 3030, years ago. We spotted a mess of black necked stilts nesting on a small island/peninsula there, which necessitated a couple of very slow row-bys.
Once done with the stilts, we were off to look at Petes harbor and sigh over a Sprinta Sport, which looks like fun. We headed a few hundred yards up the slough and pushed the bow of the boat into the mud for lunch.
An hour later we slowly rowed back to the ramp to load back up on the trailer, three hours on the water....and it hardly cost me anything! Ha!
1968 Selmer Series 9 B-flat and A clarinets
1962 Buesher "Aristocrat" tenor saxophone
Piper One Design 24, Hull #35; "Alpha"