Sunday May 13 2018
Bodega Bay To Fort Brag (Noyo Harbor)
Trip Distance 83 nm
This leg of the trip is the first of one of the longer legs so we decided to leave at 05:00 in the dark from Spud Point Marina. We had our track into Bodega Bay on OpenCpn which I could follow on the way out. Murphy’s law hit and our hand held search light went out when we cleared the marina and in the dark went slightly past “R”34 marker and ran aground. Luckily we were going slow and I was able to back off and get off the ground but it was a bit exciting since could see nothing. Patty was a real sport and stood on the bow trying to use a flash light to find the markers on the rest of the way out.
Calm flat seas today and we rounded Point Arena with no problems but did have to dodge a lot of crab pots. On night trips we cannot see the pots so we keep outside at least the 300’ depth line where the water is usually too deep for pots. On the way we have noticed pots out too 270’.
Arrived at Fort Bragg (Noyo Harbor) at 13:30 in good shape.
This harbor is for smaller size boats and we fit in but with some effort.
Noyo Harbor is another fishing working harbor, like Spud Point Marina, where not many pleasure boats visit. Many of the nice older classic wooden fishing boats as well as newer steel hulled ones were in the harbor.
There is not much to do at Noyo Harbor but there is a nice stretch of grass in front of the marine for the dogs to play with the chuck it.
Monday May 14 2018
Monday morning we took a hike out the front of the marina and out to US 101 to the Pomo Bluffs park that is on the ocean on the south side of the entrance to the harbor. On the way back we stopped at the Harvest Market which is a high end very nice market just outside the marina.
