MONDAY 8 JULY SAUSALITO TO SAN RAFAEL.

 It’s moving day, but we woke up to total fog.  First time since we have been here we are all socked in.

That’s ok, we aren’t in a hurry.  We are moving back over to Loch Lomond for a couple days and need to wait for the tide to come in so that it will be deep enough to get into Loch Lomond.

We got the boat all ready and moved out.  It’s my day to drive.  Yippee!

We left Sausalito and headed for Angel Island.

We have to go way out into the bay to pick up the channel.  That’s cool because this sail boat was out there with all his sails up.  It’s such a beautiful ship

We were able to see some of the old forts on Angel Island

San Quintin Prison

And the osprey Nest up on the channel marker.  

We really had to fight to get into the dock.  Between the wind and the current it was not a pretty sight.

We basically ran into and over the “honey dew” boat that was tied up on the dock pumping out.  He was quite nice about it and helped us finally get secured to the dock.  We had to wait quite some time to use the pump out as it wasn’t working very well.  He was also taking forever because he pumps people’s boats out for them and then comes over to the pump out station and empties his tank.  It was taking so long that he finally offered to pump us out for free so we wouldn’t have to keep waiting for him to finish.  That was nice of him.

So, we fired everything up and got ready for our fight with the wind and current again.  We had to turn the boat around and go into a slip that was behind and to the left.  We got the boat turned and then let it blow us down the channel until we were lined up with the slip.  I unfortunately waited a little too long to go forward so in stead of going straight in we went in at a bit of an angle.  No damage to anything, but it sure was not pretty.  

We are not in the same slip we were in before and this one is a bit shorter.  In order for us to get off the boat our bow sprint hung over the dock so we could get the swim step in far enough to step onto the dock.  It is definately not ideal.  Also, the power is not right for us so we had to borrow an adapter from our friend Brian who lives on his boat here in the marina.  I met him and his wife the last time we were here.

They gave us some real good info on where to go in the Delta.  He drives the Horn Blower Ferry on an on-call basis.  He is quite the boats man.