Herein is the itinerary for our 17th Annual, Delta/Bay Extravaganza, 2019 C-Dory event. Our schedule will be different than it has been for the last several years. And the schedule has been changed slightly since the announcement (we are now not staying in Sausalito). There is a request for attendees to send a $80 check for marina reservations, and a request to volunteer for a pot luck food dish. All this is described below.
1. Wednesday, May 1st , Delta Marina, Rio Vista
Harbormaster Bill (707) 374-2315
• Launch fee of $10.00 to be paid individually, on check-in
• Vehicle and trailer parked in the gated lot at the end of the marina
• Parking, $5 per day, Wednesday to Sunday ($25) paid on check-in
• Pay total $35 ($10+$25) in cash to this Marina on check-in.
If you want to come a day early on Tuesday, April 30th, the overnight on-the-dock charge is 85 cents per foot, per night, for a vessel.
Wednesday, May 1st, leave Rio Vista (Delta Marina) at 12:00 Noon, and arrive at Wheeler Island Duck Club, midafternoon. On Wednesday, Kath and I plan to launch our own vessel about 10:00 AM, at Rio Vista. We then will all leave Rio Vista, as a C-Dory Group, at Noon, and head down river to Wheeler Island.
2. Wednesday and Thursday, May 1st and 2nd, Wheeler Island Private Duck Club
Jim’s cell phone (916) 799-0286
• Boats rafted double, boat-to-boat, at Club dock, 25 foot boats in first
• Bring enough boat fenders to raft up
• No shore power or water hookups
• Restrooms and showers in the clubhouse
• No marina fees!
John and Robbin are hosting a BBQ dinner for everyone on Wednesday night. Kath and I are hosting a bacon and egg breakfast for everyone on Thursday morning.
This year we are staying two nights at the Duck Club (Wednesday and Thursday nights). John has arranged a guided fishing trip for anyone who is interested on Thursday, May 2nd.
John has hired Jeff of “Go Fishing Adventures” to be our fishing guide for Thursday. Those that met him last year will tell you that Jeff is a real “go getter” and has lots of fish pictures to show for it.
Please bring your fishing gear and fishing licenses if you want to go guided fishing for stripped bass and maybe sturgeon on Thursday. We will take the big boats out on Thursday for fishing with the group and the fishing guide.
On Thursday night we will have a pot luck dinner. For the dinner we will have a fish fry and will supplement it with volunteer food contributions. For Thursday night we will supplement fish with predinner snacks (chips and cheese/crackers), hamburgers, potato salad, green salad, and desert. Everyone is to bring their own liquid refreshments.
Kath and I will bring the hamburger for Thursday night. We need food volunteers for each of the following five items for Thursday night:
1. Predinner snacks (chips and cheese/crackers)
2. Buns for the hamburgers; ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise; onions
3. Potato salad
4. Green salad and dressing
5. Desert.
We also need food volunteers for a continental breakfast on Friday morning, May 3rd.
1. Croissants or bakery items
2. Coffee and orange Juice.
There are seven (5+2) opportunities above for each of the attendees to pick one of the seven pot luck food items. The head count is 20 persons, including the club caretakers.
3. Friday, May 3rd and Saturday, May 4th, San Francisco South Beach Harbor
Harbor Master Linda Green (415) 495-4911
• Cost of $35 per night regardless of boat size (Prepaid)
• Non-refundable deposit, paid in advance, $10 per vessel (Prepaid)
• Rest rooms and showers
• Shore power and water hookups available (power adapter with a deposit)
• Everyone on “A” dock with assigned slip numbers (given later in trip).
Friday, May 3rd, leave Duck Club approximately 9:30 AM (on an early incoming tide if possible) and head to SF South Beach Harbor. We will try to leave the Duck Club in the morning after breakfast, in time to safely cross San Pablo Bay. We may stop in Sausalito on the way over to SF to fill our gas tanks before we arrive at the City of San Francisco (South Beach Harbor).
On Friday and Saturday nights, we will have dinner at one of the casual nearby San Francisco neighborhood restaurants for those that are interested in attending. John and Laurie, maybe you could please arrange to use your reciprocal yacht club privileges to allow us to have dinner on one of the nights (Friday or Saturday) at the South Beach Yacht Club?
4. Sunday, May 5th
Leave San Francisco at dawn’s early light, and return to Rio Vista to arrive before Noon. On Sunday, we will head non-stop back to Rio Vista. We should pull into the docks at Rio Vista, approximately 11:00 AM, Sunday morning. Per tradition, anyone willing, is invited to have breakfast at the Strippers Restaurant in Rio Vista, curtesy of Jim and Kath, after we get our boats retrieved and put on their trailers. This is usually by about 1:00 PM, Sunday.
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The above itinerary seems like a rigid schedule. In fact, anything can happen along the way to throw it off. Several years we were not able to meet our plan as scheduled, due to weather conditions.
In the Central/West Delta main channels one wants to avoid together the incoming wind, and the outgoing tides, as they can be nasty enough, in combination, to even put a mighty C-Dory out-of- commission. Once you are West of Pittsburgh, the water channels become wider and bigger, and the wind is usually going to be coming at you from the West, and if the tide is going out, hang on for a rough passage!
For some years, we have lucked out with relatively calm weather, and we have been able to safely finish off the entire trip itinerary, as we originally planned it. However, in a few past years we have had to modify our schedule substantially, and stop at interim locations, or even stay over at a given location an extra day or so, to “ride out” the passing weather.
For full disclosure, for the new attendees, this Extravaganza covers approximately 200 NM in five (5) days, and there is always unpredictability in weather and water conditions. The more experienced, competent, and relaxed Skippers have generally enjoyed this trip the most.
As always, each boat Captain is solely responsible for his/her own boat’s, and passenger’s, ultimate safety and well-being. Each Skipper is not to rely on the judgment (or lack thereof) of the Pack Commodore. It greatly helps the Group to show up with your vessel and engine(s) in good operating condition and with full tanks of fuel when you leave Rio Vista.
The C-Dory Group will communicate during this trip on VHF Channel 69. We will also monitor Channel 16.
There is no need for anyone to bring food for either Wednesday night, or Thursday morning. Please feel free though to host your own dock happy hour at any of our destinations. Everyone is on their own for breakfasts and lunches throughout the trip. Some folks bring their own food with them, and others just go out to eat, as there are plenty of good restaurants to eat breakfast and lunch nearby. Also, some have dinners on their own boats, and others go out to dinner as a group.
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This is our 17th time for this C-Dory cruise, and we have always enjoyed ourselves, and the other attendees, or we would not keep doing it. We again look forward to the trip this year. We never know when this will be the last year, we can do this due to inevitable health reasons.
This year, like year’s past, we need to collect some marina reservation fees in advance. The advance marina reservation fees, per vessel, this year are $80 for San Francisco ($35 x 2) + $10).
You will pay your own launch fees and parking costs at Rio Vista when you check-in there. The San Francisco marina must be paid in advance. There are no fees for our stay at Wheeler Island!
Please send a check for $80.00 to confirm your trip reservation. This fee will be non-refundable, even if you do not show up, for whatever reason, as San Francisco will not refund it. Along with your check, please provide (1) the full first and last names for yourself and crew; (2) your vessel name; and (3) your vessel CF number. This information is used for marina reservations.
Please send your check, payable to Jim Gibson, along with the above requested information, to Jim Gibson, at 15 Noah Court, Sacramento, California, 95831. Please send your check by March 31, 2019 (about a month from now). If we do not receive your check by then we will assume that you are not going.
Please indicate on this site if you will be fishing with the guide on Thursday, as we need a head count for Jeff.
Finally, please indicate on this site which of the seven food items you are going to volunteer for.
There is room for one more boat to go on this trip. Please sign up here if you are interested in attending. We look forward to new folks going on this trip.
Thank you for attending this event. As always, we look forward to seeing everyone May 1st. This is one month later than last year so hopefully we will get some better weather this year.
If there are any questions, please call me. Kath and I are looking forward to another fun C-Dory gathering.
Sincerely,
Jim & Kath
