Our annual offshore Cruise to Half Moon Bay is just a week away on September 26th, if you are planning to go please let me know so I can give the yacht club a number for dinner.  Half Moon Bay yacht club will be serving a $10 dinner with a vegetarian option.  Rendezvous is at eight at the Gate, please monitor channel 68.  Oyster BBQ at  the club about 1400 please bring shucking knives and your choice of condiments.

See you there.
deangurke@gmail.com
510-910-6289
 

We will be heading to Half Moon Bay this year the weekend of September 26^th.  Tides are favorable and we can only hope the wind gods will cooperate with us, those of you who participated last year will remember conditions were horrible and the fleet unanimously decided to forego heading out the Gate, we all ended up at Point San Pablo Yacht Club for a wonderful weekend.

 

Plan to rendezvous at the Gate at 0800, the slack after the flood is at 0857 with maximum ebb of 1.1 knots at 1053, for the return trip on Sunday slack water at 1539 with a maximum food of 1.4 knots at 1819.  As you can see the currents are mild this year and should not be an issue.

 

As usual MMBA will host a beach side oyster BBQ in the late afternoon and Half Moon Bay Yacht Club (www.hmbyc.org) will host a dinner for us at a minimal price.  The folks at this club loved having us two years ago and are looking forward to our return this year. 

 

The anchorage in Princeton Harbor is well protected in all conditions and the holding ground is good, as an alternative guest docks are almost always available in the harbor at the rate of 75 cents a foot, contact the harbormaster by phone at 650-726-5727 or by VHF.  If you choose to anchor please bring your own dingy or arrange directly with another boat to provide ferry service to the clubs dingy dock.

 

Contact Dean Gurke at deangurke@gmail.com or by phone at 510-910-6289 by September 16^th if you are planning to go, the preferred contact method is by e-mail.  A cruise out packet will be e-mailed to all planning to attend on the weekend of the 19^th.