Alaskan Sea-Duction
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- Alaskan Sea-Duction
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- 1988 M/Y Camargue YachtFisher
Very nice. Thanks for saring. Many many moons ago I used to swim in the Sacramento river with my dad.
Gee, no pictures of the squalid structures of the Mayberry Slough squatters.
In my soon-to-be past life, we were docked at Antioch marina - we had a Seray 380DA, which is now for sale in Perry's (your home base, I think). Anyway, in the late 90's, we discovered Mayberry Slough, which connects the San Juaquin to Sherman Lake and the Sac River. Just west of the Antioch Bridge, the slough splits into two sections. Very few people transit through the narrow section, so we put some lines on the bank, and most summer weekends it was just us with the blackberries, river otters, and racoons.None yet, haven't made it by there. The truth is this whole region had benefited from being our playground for many decades. When the economy went in the ditch many formerly beautiful, thriving areas didn't fare well. Entertainment and recreation budgets are the first casualties we all know. Bethel Island and Lost Isle come to mind.
In my soon-to-be past life, we were docked at Antioch marina - we had a Seray 380DA, which is now for sale in Perry's (your home base, I think).
We're going to be keeping Tropical Blend in Alameda, in the Grand Marina. We'll probably cruise it out to Discovery Bay over the July 4th holiday - we have friends that live there. It'll take a little bit longer than our Searay... but a lot less fuel!I saw your boat today when my son and I walked down to the sales dock while I enjoyed my morning cup of coffee. Great looking boat btw
Are you bringing the Nordy up to the Delta too or somewhere in the bay?
Mayberry Slough sounds like a real peach. I'll photograph it when we make it by there someday. I was thinking an Antioch run may be our next jaunt. My thought when starting this thread was showing the California Delta as a whole. The good, the bad and the ugly and it sounds like that spot has some ugly.
I returned to Bethel Island last winter, after an almost 30 year absence, while boat shopping(forgot my camera though). To say the difference was stark would be the understatement of the year. Surreal is a more apt description of this modern day ghost town. Once thriving resorts and marinas stripped of any metal worth recycling and littered with stripped fiberglass hulls with VIN and registration numbers ground off. Former docks filled with vacationers now home to some birds with vegetation growing throughout.
Hit me up with a Private Message if you guys decide to come up and use the Sea Ray.
There was only one slip available that would accommodate Tropical Blend - it's B-13. It's pretty far inside, and very close to the parking lot and restrooms. Of all the marinas we visited, we thought that the Grand Marina was the most organized, and we really liked the Harbormaster. Now, if we could just get the weather to cooperate... gale warnings tomorrow around Pt. Conception, winds at 35kts, seas to 18 feet - yowza! We'd like to try to leave next Thursday, but right now, the window is looking good early in the week.The N43 is a great boat and as a former Grand Marina tenant if you havent been there before you will really like the Marina. The tenants there are excellent and I would not hesitate in returning there again in the future.
If you can get a slip on the outside of A dock it is even better with the rowers going by in the am and most people obeying the no wake rule you wont get rocked too bad.