Hard to imagine someone actually living on this thing:

Someone has two chairs set up just around the corner from Pt. Bluff, must investigate:

Haggard visitors, completely stressed, obviously overcome by cheating death on the angry waters of Raccoon Strait:

Takin’ it all in:

Cove Cafe Entertainment, Victory & Penny:

Another good reason to bring your own ride to Angel:

Sam’s. Things… getting…. hazy….

Bon voyage…

Back To Berkeley: 7.1

Aloha, Estuary, it was a fun month. The shoppers were out at Michaans for the Giant Flea Swap-O-Rama for their First Sunday shenanigans:

The Bay Bridge is coming along nicely:

And who should be on hand to greet us back in the Home Port but Ed Shirk on Kelly:

Lay Day: 6.30

As Satchel Paige is supposed to have said: “Don’t look back, they might be gaining on you.”

Estuary 6.29
Lunch at the Encinal Yacht Club – all the Bay Area YC’s have pools, right?

Encinal’s busy guest dock:

The folks from J-World were out and about:

And the Boat Name Of The Day – it’s a little hard to read because of the “trying to come about and take pictures at the same time” issue, but “Graceful Exit” sounded like a fine sentiment:

Lay Day 6.28

Screwin’ around: The tug “Sound Reliance” was in the Bay Ship & Yacht drydock last week – and got some shiny new screws:

Estuary 6.27

Wednesday lunch at the Oakland Yacht Club:

Where they have some Jack London Memorabilia:

And the Encinal Yacht Club tows some juniors up the Estuary toward The Big Windy:

Boat Name of the Day – with twin 300 hp outboards:

6.26.2012

Small Boats @ Play

The Potters were out at play today:

Interesting yawl-like rig on this one:

The Encinal Summer Program is in full swing:

Encinal Optis huddled in the Wind River cove:

Here’s one that broke free:

Eric at Alameda Marine was kind enough to let us tie up for a quick run to Sven’s – and a stop for lunch where the elite meet to eat: The Boathouse Tavern. Garlic Noodles or Spaghetti, and game shows on the big screen. Opens at 1100.

One of the new Sunsail rental fleet was getting prepped at Svens:

And finally, our Boat Name Of The Day: The Santana 22 “Laches”. It’s a legal term, meaning essentially if you snooze, you loose.

Here’s the “legal definition” from WikiWiki:

The person invoking laches is asserting that an opposing party has “slept on its rights,” and that, as a result of this delay, circumstances have changed such that it is no longer just to grant the plaintiff’s original claim. Put another way, failure to assert one’s rights in a timely manner can result in a claim being barred by laches. Laches is a form of estoppel for delay.

In Latin,
Vigilantibus non dormientibus æquitas subvenit.

Equity aids the vigilant, not the sleeping ones (that is, those who sleep on their rights).

Estuary Art 6.26

A short spin around the Estuary today…

San Francisco always looks like Oz:

Shots of the side of the Lurline a la Captain Jan Tiura….

Boat Name of the Day:

If you like this view of Jack London Square….

You can enjoy it from your new houseboat:

At the Barnhill Marina in Alameda:

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