2018 A Pacific Coast Trip San Francisco Bay To Puget Sound

Tuesday May 8 to Friday May 10

Tuesday May 8

While waiting for our weather window on Saturday we decided to head over to Ballena Bay Marina on Alameda Island for an overnight stay on Tuesday. The marina has been sold by Almar to a new owner which is replacing some the old decrepit docks with nice new ones.

Water Dog At Ballena Bay, Krogen Whale Back in Back Ground

We pulled in too the guest dock to the West of the fuel dock and where surprised to see a Krogen Whale Back docked at the guest docks also.

We took a hike out of the marina and then keeping along the Bay south of the marina to the Alameda Park along the bay. Nice hike to end of park

Alameda Walk Looking Back At Houses On Bay

On way back went out to small point to see entrance the Ballena Bay looking out to bay to the east.

Wed-Friday May 9-10

Cruised over to San Francisco Small Boat Harbor Marina just inside the Golden Gate Bridge to spend Wed and Friday.

Water Dog At SF Marina Golden Gate Bridge In Background

On Thursday we walked through the Marina Green East of the marina past Fort Mason and then around to the Safeway grocery before heading back to boat.

Friday morning we took Lyft ride from marina to Lands End near the Sutro Baths with the dogs and walked back along shore line to the Golden Gate Bridge back to the marina. This is one of our favorite hikes and is very beautiful.

Dog’s got to swim at Bakers Beach then again nearer the marina at Crissy Field Beach.

View Of Bridge Once Past It On Hike From East Side

Saturday morning we got out at 7:00am bound for Bodega Bay for the first leg of trip up coast.

Monday April 30 to May 8
Lots of work on boat to get ready for our trip up the Pacific coast starting at San Francisco Bay, up the Northern California coast then Oregon and Washington State. The waters up the coast are known to be fairly rough at times so you need to be well prepped. We loaded up the 1100 pounds(400 foot) of 3B ½” chain in to the back of the pickup and hauled it over to the boat ramp in our marina where Joe our next door boat neighbor was nice enough to help us load the chain with his heavy duty inflatable. We then hauled chain up in to chain locker with the windlass from the opposite side of the dock where the dinghy was from Water Dog’s bow. Went well and only took ½ hour or so.

We also had the 6 man Viking life raft inspected by Sal’s Inflatables in Alameda for $2400(ouch!) and used the dinghy crane to haul it up in out cargo net to place in it’s cradle.

Next up we put up the plexiglass storm windows on the Port side to protect the windows from any large waves we should not encounter but better safe than sorry.

We also epoxy glued some more WeldMount Footmans Straps in to lazzerate to use with 1” NRS rafting straps to make sure nothing moves while underway. We use blue tape to hold them in place until the epoxy glue cures.

Category: 2018 A Pacific Coast Trip San Francisco Bay To Puget Sound

San Francisco Pre-Trip Shakedown Cruise

Boat Prep For Trip Up Pacific Coast