Delta Week Begins!

We are up on the boat at Delta Bay Marina in Isleton, ready to start our 9 day adventure! I realized last night I had forgotten to do one thing I had told my boss I'd do before I left (hopefully that is all I forgot) so I brought the laptop out on the sundeck about 7:45 am. It is so peaceful out. There are a LOT of birds and they are just chirping away. Our friend Gene cruised by about 8:10, on his way up to a big festival in Petaluma with a concert tonight. Sounded like fun! He seems to have a big boat adventure with friends every couple of weeks, from what we have seen the past few weeks. Gotta love it!

There are a bunch of folks from Matt's work at the RV park across the street for a weekend retreat. I heard they will be smoking bacon on the Traegers and serving up bacon and eggs around 10am then we are heading out to Potato Slough for us to anchor and the folks that brought jet skis, ski boats and other small boats to play. It looked like quite a few of the folks did bring boats and jet skis. Of course there are always stories with that...

Last night three of the guys went to launch one of the boats at the launch ramp that is about a mile away. This is a super nice ski boat on an equally nice trailer. There had already been a minor parking lot accident while trying to hook the boat trailer to the tow vehicle but we won't get into that. So last night, whoever drove them down there backed the trailer in, shoved the boat off with two guys aboard and took off to head back to the party. Time passed, more time passed. The guys on the boat weren't back. I may have already mentioned cell phone service here is not very good so nobody could get in touch with the guys on the boat. Finally a call went through. The guys were still tied to the launch ramp because the boat battery was dead and the motor wouldn't start (boy does that sound familiar). This started a long conversation amongst the group as to what to do to help them. One of the guys had a portable charger but it was dead so he plugged it into charge and told the guys he'd be down there in about 30 mins with it to give them a jump. After about 15 mins the group tried to call the two guys again to check on them and nobody could get through. A few minutes later they walked up! They said someone else showed up at the launch ramp and wasn't able to launch with them tied up there so the fellow rounded up some jumper cables, pulled the battery out of his boat and gave them a jump start so they could get out of his way!

There is apparently quite a collection of boats and jet skis owned by group members on the other side of the store, we'll have to go take a look later on. It is about 8:30 now and still very calm, quiet and peaceful. There must be a herd of cattle close by because I hear what sure sounds like cows mooing and making all kinds of cow racket. Must be feeding time?!? But the birds are much louder and the calm is broken by the occasional loud boat going by in the river on the other side of the tule island behind the boat.

I didn't post any info or pictures from last weekend. All the pictures I took were of Joe bringing his boat in. They got here late Saturday and we'd had a pretty lazy day that day. We took the dinghy over to Owl Harbor and the nice slough over there and made the tour counter clockwise this time to get a different vantage point. It is really nice in the slough and there are all sorts of interesting boats to look at. We saw a boat called Coyote . (that is coyote "point", get it??) and we figured that had to be Nick Klusnick's old sailboat from where else, Coyote Point Yacht Club / marina. We stopped to talk to the folks on board and it was indeed the same owner who'd bought the boat from Nick years before. He said he'd raced on the boat with Nick for years prior to buying the boat from him and also mentioned he'd helped Nick bring a boat down from the PNW years prior. The boat they'd brought down was a beautiful Kadey Krogen "trawler" that puts our boat to shame. Nick owned the Krogen for a number of years and cruised it extensively before selling it to someone in the PNW. Well small world that it is we had actually seen Nick's old Krogen on our trip to Oakland Yacht Club last fall. The latest owners have brought it back to the bay area and keep it on the OYC docks. They were just a few slips down from us and the boat looks as beautiful as when it was brand new. The boating world is a small one, for sure!

After our dinghy ride we went to Spindrift for an afternoon snack and shared a huge plate of chicken nachos. The bartender / waiter who was working was super nice and we had a good time talking to him and some of the other folks in the bar area. We got back in time to help Joe and Carrie into their slip and hang out with them for a bit before they headed to Happy Harbor for dinner. Sunday we didn't do much as we had to head back around 2 to get Joe and Carrie back for an event they were committed to. Our big adventure for the day was taking out the trash. We decided to go by dinghy and take a tour of the Delta Bay and Spindrift docks. There are so many unique and interesting boats here, it is quite fun to cruise around slowly and check them all out...

The wind is picking up a bit so it seems like we might be in for a windy day. We've been having a bit of a heat wave and it is supposed to be cooler today so maybe this is the cooler weather moving in... by the end of the week we are supposed to be into triple digits so it seems like we will have a little bit of everything this week!