Excerpts from the official Sea Bear Log.
Sea Bear
Engine – Yanmar 4JH-TE
Dedicated to JC, who keeps buying me these logs. I find myself writing on the first two or three pages, then I lose the book.
Today is JC’s birthday, 4/28/07 and it’s a Saturday. I’m at work and trying to join the “Close 100 cases in a month” club. (note, I managed to close 506 cases in 5 months, a record that insured I’d never get promoted.)
We hope to go sailing on the Blue Dolphin tomorrow with Robert and Kathy. We’ve bought good, inflatable PFD’s with the safety harness built-in. We’re also set up to attend “Basic Keel Boat” class 5/12, 13 5/19, 20 at OCSC
Our first trip onboard the Blue Dolphin was a short one. 30 feet from the pier, her keel was stuck in a mud bar and we waitd 4 hours for the tide to free us. When it did, we motoredout to the last channel marker, turned around, and returned to the pier. Total time underweigh was three hours or so.
Underweigh – 4/29 noon – San Leandro Marina -> SF Bay – High tide 11:50PM 7 ft. 11:45PM
Went under Bay bridge then west towards Golden Gate Bridge, winds up to 25 knots gusting boat speed up to 11 knots, was pretty exciting Some things below moved about, but nothing serious. Could smell blackwater tanks. Got a bit queasy, but no real problems. Then headed to oakland Estuary and finally back to san Leandro.
Memorial Day, 2007 (weekend) Took off from home a little late, needed to get Scopolamine patches, good thing Scott the Pharmacist at Rite Aid let us have a box even though their power was out. Got to the Blue Dolphin 8ish loaded our gear, and headed out around 10pm Went out the San Leandro channel, turned north and headed for the Golden Gate.
(to be continued)
