Clipper Cove Pretty nice here. Down town was cool but windy and rolly from swell off the bay. Clipper Cove between Treasure, and Yerba Bueno Islands is protected from the wind, warm, calm. MarAzul likes!
Had dinner with the people that have that sweet little ketch in the far right of the photo above. She is from Argentina, her Dad owns a hotel on the east side of the Panama canal. The guy is a biologist that works for a consulting firm, he basically give the ok, for construction sites. Tomorrow he is going over to Richmond to see if any Turtles are in a construction site. They are waiting on his ok, before proceeding but he will be back here tomorrow night. Nice to talk with Millennial and see how the world works now. Damned if they don't roll they own, they had a brew for me though, they love the MarAzul.
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Anchored in the Delta, Just off the Stockton Deep Water Canal. Looks as if we found our way to a Bass pond all the way inland from the Sea. We are about 12 miles from Lodi, maybe 20 from Stockton. Rather peaceful here, all I can hear is the geese flying by. A couple flocks in view in the photo above. Just before anchoring, this ship went by in the Deep water channel to Stockton. The photo can't show what caught my eye. The loaded water line of the ship is higher than the tops of the power pole out in the farmland. This place is tenuous And that doesn't convey the story either.
I hauled anchor and headed out of the Potato slough today. Left on a rising tide to help me recovery from any mishaps, like running aground. We did at the first opportunity! The thing about leaving on the incoming tide is, it's low water then. Probably two feet less water than when we came in last week. Well no harm, we were off the bottom in a few minutes and inched out a few yards away. The other thing about incoming tide is, your bucking the current running down stream, and that is what we did. The goal today was to get to Rio Vista, for fuel groceries and the Windows XP disc some local help has for me, so I can fix my primary Navigation Computer. Even though MarAzul was bucking the current, until we could get to the Sacramento River, it should have been a 3 hour trip. We were going to take a short cut via Three Mile Slough from the San Joaquin River to the Sacramento River, but I was worried about getting the Bridge up on the Sacramento side, so I radioed them as we approached the Slough, using the two channels normal for raising bridges and Channel 16. No answer. Well heck maybe they... So I headed up the slough. The Charts say, 4 to 5 meters of water the whole way but for one spot of 3.5 meter. Heck, it's near High tide now, less than an hour to go, which should give us at least 2 more feet than the charts say. Made it about 400 yard up the slough and ran a ground where there should be 4.5 meters of water. The funny thing is, I asked a fisherman anchored if he thought I could get the bridge raised? He said, I have never seen it up! Backed off that bar with no trouble, and did a U turn. Now we know why the bridge hasn't be seen up! No boat tall enough to need it up can use that channel. Probably don't even have a crew there any longer. New charts too! Just downloaded all new Delta charts before leaving Bandon. Probably could get the current info in the Notice to Mariners. But dang, I can't cover all those bases singlehanded. Well headed down the San Joaquin to where it joins the Sacramento just north of Pittsburgh CA, then we can turn up river to Rio Vista about 9 miles. Getting late in the day, the goal was a bit too far, so we put the hook down in a quiet spot off the shipping channel across from Pittsburgh CA for the night. We shall see if we can get to Rio Vista tomorrow, I think it is only about 15kn miles. It was closer this morning, if you can fly.
Way to go! Sounds like a hoot of a time figuring your way through the waterways. I'm near Santa Rosa. If you find yourself within 50 miles, please let me know, I'd love to buy you a beer and talk about everything but politics.
