Made it to Bodega Bay

Ok so it is not so far from San Francisco, but it is a start!!!

We left Ballena Isle Marina promptly at 9:30AM 5/2.   Mostly to plan...  Then we left Ballena Isle Marina again at 10:30AM after Liz called us on the cell phone and said "You left your propane tank here at the marina!"...

Bye Ballena Isle!


We got to the Golden Gate later than planned and still tried to get out through 25 knot westerly winds, 10-12' waves coming in and 2-3 knot current going out...  It was a mess, we gave up quickly headed over to Angle Island and tied up for the night.

 Angle Island tie-up:




At the  tie-up, we looked at the weather and decided to get up to Bodega Bay by Thursday evening  5/3.  We left Angle Island at 4:40AM and motored to about Point Bonita where we set sail and sailed all the way to Bodega Bay with 10-20 knot  winds from the south, 2-4 foot south waves from south west...  Visibility was under 0.8 miles.  Heard the freighter pass, fog horn,  and saw her on the AIS and on radar at 0.8 miles away but never saw her...  

It was a pleasant trip in the enclosed cockpit...  It was misty and rained a bit and was probably like 50 deg.F.  We were dry and mostly warm, we have a small propane heater we broke out to take the chill off during the sail, it worked!

We are here, the clam chowder is great...   So tonight we are in Bodega bay...




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