We made it! Stockton to Berkeley in two days

Well, last week i bought the sail boat in ebay, this weekend i got up early, picked up Noah and Jack and drove over to the Stockton. We spent the morning getting the boat ready and taking multiple trips to West Marine for supplies.

At about 1 we set out across the San Joaquin Delta for the San Francisco Bay. The delta is a weird place, it feels like another world, islands, swamps, levees, lots of fisherman and duck hunters…

At dusk we were approaching Antioch for the night. I looked over and saw this large sign, shaped differently than ones we’d seen before, it said “5”. I remarked to noah who was steering, hey, i wonder what that 5 means. A minute later Noah yelled out, hey, the boat isn’t going the direction we’re steering. We’d run aground! Jack and I got up, started rocking the boat while noah tried to reverse our way out of the mud and signal a passing motor boat for help.

They had MUCH bigger engines and pulled us out easily, but not without asking at least 4 times why we hadn’t be looking closely at our charts.

Antioch is a weird little town… we couldn’t get a key for the marina gate so we had to climb over the fence to get in and out. We walked down to what the locals call the ‘Stop and Rob’ connivence store.

In the morning the marina was fogged in, we walked a few miles around antioch looking for a cafe, eventually we found a greasy spoon diner. We filled up the gas tanks and headed out again dodging giant container ships.

Eventually we got in to the bay and saw the sunset behind the golden gate bridge. Anyway, both noah and i took photos which we posted to flickr.