Tom
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We're on our annual "bay cruise" with folks from our boat club. 18 boats are participating this year and we're visiting new destinations (new for the event and new to us).
First stop after leaving home Friday morning was the Pittsburg marina to top up with fuel. Diesel was $2.749/gallon - the cheapest by far anywhere on the water in the CA Delta. Other folks were reporting paying $3.70 on the same day.
On to Vallejo, on the Napa River, to pre-position for the Saturday official start. Several other boats arrived shortly afterwards. When I checked in at the marina office a new sea water pump for the generator was waiting for me, courtesy of the Westerbeke distributor and UPS.
Saturday morning the small group left Vallejo in cloudy and breezy conditions and headed across San Pablo Bay to rendezvous with the rest of the group for the trip up the Petaluma channel and the Petaluma River. The boats fell in line according to the pre-assigned docking order and off we went. You'd better stay in the channel or you'd find yourself hard aground.
The trip upriver was quite nice, but I could have taken better photos if it had been little less cloudy. We get a Sheriff escort for the last few miles up river. before docking at the city dock in downtown Petaluma. Close to all kinds of restaurants, shopping and theater. I take the opportunity to change the sea water pump.
Sunday it's relatively quiet around here, except for numerous looky lous coming by to check out the fleet.
First stop after leaving home Friday morning was the Pittsburg marina to top up with fuel. Diesel was $2.749/gallon - the cheapest by far anywhere on the water in the CA Delta. Other folks were reporting paying $3.70 on the same day.
On to Vallejo, on the Napa River, to pre-position for the Saturday official start. Several other boats arrived shortly afterwards. When I checked in at the marina office a new sea water pump for the generator was waiting for me, courtesy of the Westerbeke distributor and UPS.
Saturday morning the small group left Vallejo in cloudy and breezy conditions and headed across San Pablo Bay to rendezvous with the rest of the group for the trip up the Petaluma channel and the Petaluma River. The boats fell in line according to the pre-assigned docking order and off we went. You'd better stay in the channel or you'd find yourself hard aground.
The trip upriver was quite nice, but I could have taken better photos if it had been little less cloudy. We get a Sheriff escort for the last few miles up river. before docking at the city dock in downtown Petaluma. Close to all kinds of restaurants, shopping and theater. I take the opportunity to change the sea water pump.
Sunday it's relatively quiet around here, except for numerous looky lous coming by to check out the fleet.
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