Saturday on the Delta

The sailboats got underway around ten am after some small struggles freeing anchors from the delta mud and weeds. We heard the other part of our group, who were in Rio Vista, heading out earlier. Hopefully everyone will meet up safely tonight in Benecia.
Scott's engine cooling water issue turned out to be due to an impressive collection of aquatic plants in his raw water intake hose. Matt said there were literally STICKS in there. Once the intake was cleared everything was fine.
We plan to stay one more night then head to willow berm to leave the boat there for August. We thought it would be wise to check our tanks and we were happy to find we still had half our water (about 100 gallons) and about 1/3 capacity left in the holding tank. Using paper plates and not showering certainly helps with the fresh water consumption! We've also been following the "if it's yellow..." adage in the heads. We have enough food to be able to stay out another month so one more night is definitely doable.
I have a bunch of pictures to upload and post once we are back to civilization with wi fi and such fineries.