We arrived at Pillar Point Marina the evening of October 16th. We quickly anchored and off loaded the dinghy. We were anxious to catch the sunset. We didn’t worry about the motor and chose to row in. With Sam rowing and my navigational commands we some how made it to shore with time to …
We left Rio Vista on Wednesday October 13 planning to anchor near Benicia for the night and then carry on to San Francisco. We had absolutely no wind and ended up motoring the entire way. When we arrived in Benicia our small exhaust leak we thought we had fixed had opened up. Spilling black soot all …
When we arrived in Rio Vista we knew we needed a lift to get Hiraya in the water and a crane to raise her mast. We had watched you tube videos and read about how the lift works. Of course we watched and read about the horrors that could take place. She gets dropped or …
At times it feels like time is standing still and other times it feels as if it flies by. When we first arrived in Rio Vista we were both happy we had a place to launch but also stressed as we didn’t really have a plan B when we needed one and didn’t have enough …
The first time you take a boat out to test her out. See what she can do and how to handle her it’s called a shake down. We made a plan on how we were going to get out of our tight slip and out of the Marina. We also made a mental list of all …