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Hi Vance. Congrats about getting into sailing. It's super fun. Here is a good Bay cruising guide - www.amazon.com/Cruising-Guide-San-Francisco-Bay/dp/1937196445/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw_NX7BRA1EiwA2dpg0lJkM-JBLpsEX6QpgRkXzJ_hO-X43yBhB6zrih47LIY8EFvjoiZNVRoCFd4QAvD_BwE&hvadid=384232514074&hvdev=c&hvlocint=9032076&hvlocphy=9047391&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=b&hvrand=4809595476312719485&hvtargid=kwd-820246590860&hydadcr=7440_9611236&keywords=san+francisco+bay+cruising+guide&qid=1601618463&sr=8-2&tag=googhydr-20

Hi Breno - Both are great places. I'm sure you'll enjoy them. Have fun!

Hi Evan. I'm glad to hear you are planning a similar trip. I use Windy.com to see how the wind and the waves will be. Typically the more wind the larger the waves, although that is not always the case. Windy.com has a nice wave feature which tells you the swell and the wind wave direction, size and period. For tides you'll only need to worry about the golden gate. I try to leave the golden gate under slack or weak ebb. Coming back, I was hoping to avoid the max ebb which really slowed me down. Other boats went north and then through the Bonita channel instead of through the main shipping channel which really saved them some time. If you can plan it so that you can make it back through the gate in a flood tide, that would save you a lot of time. When you get to Drakes Bay it would be good to anchor out pretty deep because there is a lot of sea weed and the closer in you get the higher the chance of it getting sucked into the engine cooling system. For equipment, I didn't have radar. I used AIS and GPS instead. Radar would be nice, but AIS tells you where all the larger boats are and GPS lets you know where the land is. You'll miss some of the smaller sailboats and fishing boats, since they may not have transmitters. I did have a radar deflector. Radar deflectors and AIS are both pretty cheap. Also, it would be good to have a dinghy with a motor. It gets windy in Drake's Bay in the evening and I would worry that I wouldn't be able to paddle against the wind it get back to the boat. It'll be a fun trip. Good luck!

Hi Max. The Carabiner and Bracket is made and sold by Kong which is a manufacturer of sailing and climbing equipment. They're based in italy but the USA office is very friendly and responsive.

Hi Chris - I try not to leave the carabiner on for very long. Once we are settled in, I get the dingy in the water and replace the line with the carabiner with another line that loops through the mooring ball and then back to the boat. The carabiner is pretty rugged but it is still probably not recommended to leave it on the mooring ball for any significant period of time, especially if it is windy. I need the dingy anyway to get to the island, so its not a big deal to switch it out. The freeboard on my boat is pretty high, but if I had less freeboard it would be possible to leave the carabiner on the mooring and then have enough extra line on the bow line to pull yourself to the stern mooring ball, disengage the stern carabiner and then pull/motor yourself to the bow mooring and disengage that one. I've never tried it, but I think that might work OK if you had long arms and low freeboard.

Thanks. Pretoriens are good boats. If you buy it, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Hi Max. It's a good place, I recommend it. I have an all chain rode, but if you use line people say keel wrap is an issue there. Other than that, I think it is a nice place to spend a weekend.

Nice, I'm glad you found it useful. My boat is also docked at EmeryCove. If you have any questions about going down to Half Moon Bay, let me know. It was only my second time sailing down there, but who knows, maybe I'll have a good answer. It was a weird weekend when we filmed this, wind from the south most of the trip as opposed to the typical northerly wind. The other time I headed down, there was no wind coming back up the coast, so that could happen too. We motored the whole way back.

It's a BYC sail out, one of the leaders said I could follow him out & always turn around if it gets too hectic for me. Hoping to snag one experienced (outside of the bridge) crew in case I get seasick with the swells. I don't get seasick normally, not used to large swells though. Last weekend was the Angel Island sail out I single handed & my h took the ferry over the next day to sail back. I did have help with the moorings when I got there, couldn't have done that by myself!

For Halfmoon Bay, if you think you might get seasick, just take a seasickness pill before you go. It is something I always forget to do and then half the time I end up regretting it. You can't see it in the video but I was a little queasy on the way down. The other two guys had patches. I took a pill for the trip back up and it was great. I'm probably going to have to do more single handling myself now - last weekend, Kai (our 1 year old) got seasick and threw up twice and he's to young to take any pills.

Thanks, I'm glad you like them because we enjoy making them. Hopefully we'll see you out on the bay.

Thanks Cole. Yeah, we had a great time. The boats been taken out of the water all winter for repairs, but I can't wait to get back to sailing and making some more videos. We have a week in the Sacramento Delta coming up, so I'm excited about that.

Thanks! Yes, rafting up would be great. We have a couple spots we want to check out this spring. China Beach, Napa River, Westpoint Slough, Horseshoe Bay, and maybe up the Petaluma river if they end up dredging it.

Salty Posse thanks! Keep me posted. Horseshoe bay by cavallo point is one of my favorite spots. Let me know when you plan going up there

Salty Posse would also like to take a trip to half moon bay

Thank you, I'm glad you like the video!