We stayed far longer than anticipated and had a good sense of the Bay and it’s many harbours.

Making the Sausalito Yacht Club our base was a perfect choice and we enjoyed many cold drinks on their decks overlooking the Bay.

The OCC Port Captain Rick Whiting and his wife Nancy made us very welcome and we will always remember the enjoyable and entertaining evening at their boathouse-home, where we met their friends Ben and Anna who told us of their adventures, sailing their small engineless yacht from San Francisco to Boston via Cape Horn. In very sailor supporting fashion, Ben lend us his old truck and we were also able to tie alongside his new boat project at Sugardocks at Richmond Point, as we needed a dock for a few days to do a few jobs. Well, a few days stretched into three weeks with some varnishing projects besides many other maintenance works and another episode of the fridge failing, resulting in a new and larger icebox, which has now totally improved the efficiency of the fridge. Swedish Marine at Richmond Point delivered a first class service and we are very grateful to Bill and Grace for their help and hospitality at Sugardocks.

Having our own transport made life easy and we were able to go for walks after a day’s work and of course also visited the beautiful Giant Redwoods at Muir Woods.

 

          Next to the yacht club is the ferry to San Francisco:

 

           

           

                               

                                               

                                               

 

          With Rick our port officer becoming a friend!

                       Sausalito boathouses

 

                       Sausalito harbour seals

 

 

                  

 

 

                                                  

 

  

 

                Last day in the Bay, returning our access card to the Yacht Club