By Christine Weaver | January 3, 2020 | San Francisco Bay | 6
Master Mariners New Year’s Day ‘Race’
The Pinky schooner Tiger, which berths at Point San Pablo Yacht Club in Richmond, sailed to Clipper Cove in order to sail back to PSPYC for the Master Mariners’ chili feed. A westbound Catalina 34 sails past in the background.
While several Master Mariners boats were sailing to and from Clipper Cove, several others sailed in to form raft-ups. Others were already anchored there, having spent the night to watch San Francisco’s New Year’s Eve fireworks. The day started out sunny but clouds gathered, keeping the temps cool and creating a bit of a wind chill factor. A mild breeze made sailing a pleasure.
Poling out the jib on Kaze, which sailed from South Beach Harbor.
Clipper Cove lies in the shelter of the tallish Yerba Buena Island and the flat Treasure Island attached to it. Around 3 p.m., the breeze piped up with gusts that sent the largest of the raft-ups dragging anchor toward Treasure Island Sailing Center. Though replete with crab chowder and many other delicacies, the sailors leapt into action and efficiently broke the raft with no unfortunate consequences. The boats then headed for their respective ports in Alameda, Oakland, Richmond and Sausalito.
This small raft-up included, left to right, California Dreamin’, Nord Heks, Tiger Beetle and Citrine. Tiger Beetle is a Newport 33 formerly owned by Rob Macfarlane, whose current Tiger Beetle is a N/M 45.
Phil and Stephen help Richard raft his Wylie Wabbit Wasta to Phil’s Express 27 Wetsu. Wasta and Wetsu arrived singlehanded. They joined the Laser 28 Stink Eye, Beneteau First 36.7 Bonaparte, Farallon Clippers Hana and Mistress II, Cal 40 Green Buffalo, Freedom 38 Kyntanna and Alerion 38 Surprise!
A rare LaDonna sighting (center, foreground, with sunglasses). LaDonna is a former Latitude 38 editor. This boat, Bonaparte, was crab chowder HQ and thus immensely popular.
Other sailing activities on Wednesday included Treasure Island YC’s and Alameda sailors’ circumnavigation of their respective islands. We’ll have some ‘Lookin’ Good’ photos from New Year’s Day sails next week. We also invite readers to send us their own New Year’s sailing photos.
The bright hull that you could not identify in that Master Mariners event picture is the lovely Knud Reimers design Tre. Her owner has done a magnificent restoration on her
Cool that you caught a picture of our raft! We left because the tide was high at 3p and I wanted to get past the shallows at the mouth of Clipper Cove so we disbanded the rest of the raft and caught the last of the tide push and sunlight back to the South Bay. We were anchored out all night and the anchor never budged from it’s trusty holding in the mud even with a total of 6 boats hanging on. We use a stainless steel spade 120.
Three sailors were rescued on Sunday after a joint operation by the Coast Guard and two good Samaritans on commercial vessels who retrieved the crew of the 42-ft sailing vessel Coco Haz III.
The bright hull that you could not identify in that Master Mariners event picture is the lovely Knud Reimers design Tre. Her owner has done a magnificent restoration on her
Thanks for that info, Mi.
Cool that you caught a picture of our raft! We left because the tide was high at 3p and I wanted to get past the shallows at the mouth of Clipper Cove so we disbanded the rest of the raft and caught the last of the tide push and sunlight back to the South Bay. We were anchored out all night and the anchor never budged from it’s trusty holding in the mud even with a total of 6 boats hanging on. We use a stainless steel spade 120.
Jeremy
Captain SV Nord Heks
Hi Jeremy, What kind of a boat is Nord Heks and how big is she?
Hi Christine,
Nord Heks is a Colvic Watson 34’6″ at the waterline and 38′ overall. Full keel with 4’6″ draft.
Thanks for the info Jeremy!