
Sailing into 2019
Imagine a picture-perfect winter day sandwiched between high-wind advisories and a frost warning. Now realize that this perfect day just happens to fall on January 1. The result is a perfect excuse to get the boat out.

The Master Mariners Benevolent Association raced from Clipper Cove to Point San Pablo Yacht Club. A potluck, chili feed, ‘Tacky Trophy Exchange’ and more followed the race at the club located at the end of the Santa Fe Channel in Richmond.

Cruisers from Treasure Island YC embarked on a 6.25-mile counterclockwise circumnavigation of TI and Yerba Buena. Clipper Cove was not to be left lonely, however. As the TI boats were exiting, another group of cruisers sailed in from Sausalito and Richmond — or dropped into the water from TI’s dry storage — for a raft-up to share food and good cheer.

Friends visited between six sailboats and one powerboat: the Cal 40 Green Buffalo, the Santana 22 Byte Size, the Farallon Clipper Mistress II, the Black Soo Starbuck, the Cal 20 Green Dragon, the Wylie Wabbit Wasta and the 25-ft salmon fisher Ranger. Ranger and Mistress II were the first to arrive and both dropped anchor in about 20 feet of water before joining rails; everyone else rafted up to them. Byte Size had the youngest crew, a two-year-old boy and a two-month-old girl.






Another island formed the nexus of the traditional four-bridge circumnavigation of Alameda. By all reports this too was a sunny, delightful way to bring in 2019.
Very nice. Miss all of you guys.
Sailed a 21′ sloop , a Caranita, out of Berkeley for 20 years. Need to make it back (been away 15 years). See you on the Bay once I’m back. Been reading Latitude since ’83. You’re a great rag !
You have a Caranita? Before you had it in Berkeley, was it by any chance it was in Coyote Point?
In the 60s, my dad built a Caranita in the garage. He launched it in 68 or 69.
It had a blue hill, and was very well built, once described as amazing workmanship by someone who owned it in the 80s & early 90s. I’ve been wondering what happened to it for the past few years. I’d love to find it and take pictures for my dad.
Looking for any Caranita floating or on the hard. They were an Al Mason design and designed for San Francisco so there should be some still around. I had 2 in the 90’s and should never have sold. Let me know thanks. Five three zero four four zero thirty eight ninety three.
I had a Caranita in the late 80s/90s named Koibito, a fantastic boat for the Bay.She was a showboat and solid mahogony carvell planked with fjll planks stem to stern-wish I still had her.
In 1982-83 my wife and I spent a year sailing an engineless Caranita from Seattle down the west coast to near the Mexico/Guatemala border. We then trucked it across to the Gulf of Mexico and sailed up to Corpus Christi, TX.
She was a great boat and we still have fond memories of her.