Lunch Trip

The other Saturday (11/12/11) we had a boat project day planned out.  It was such a nice day, though, we felt we had to take advantage of the good weather so we decided to take a little cruise instead.  We had to leave early on Sunday to go to the Forty-Niners v. Giants game (go niners!!) so an overnighter was out.  We decided since it was an especially high tide to head over to our favorite shallow destination, San Leandro Marina.  The channel has supposedly been dredged but it is not anywhere we care to go unless there is a LOT of water.  We headed over in late morning and where they are noon, shortly before high tide.  We were seeing 10-11 feet of depth on the way in.  We stopped by the harbormaster's office and were assigned a slip directly in front of Horatio's restaurant.  We had our choice of eating there or El Torito's and decided to go with Horatio's and the view of our boat.  We had a great lunch and were totally stuffed so we took a brief nap before leaving. 

at San Leandro

On the way out, we had to stop by the harbormaster's office to drop off the key and we decided to pump out while we were there, then we headed out.  It was about 2 hours after high tide but the tide was still up.  We saw depths as low as six on the way out, which is why we only transit that channel at high tide!

We had flat water and beautiful conditions coming and going so we are glad we took advantage of the great weather to take the boat out.  There will be plenty of yucky weather days this winter to get projects done!