Experience “blue-water” sailing along the California Coast for 3 days, 2 nights. This round-trip cruise goes from Redwood City to San Francisco, then out around the Farallon’s, back to SF and finally back to Redwood City. The 125+ mile trip provides a great mix of both Bay and ocean sailing conditions with beautiful views, great sailing, and a chance to see a lot of different sea life. You’ll be an active part of the crew rotating through various roles including helms person and sail trimmer.
On this trip you’ll navigate out the Gate and follow the coast north, then around the islands and head back to SF. You’ll experience sailing and steering in an ocean swell as well as plotting and navigating. We’ll spend two nights on the boat at the docks in SF where we will eat ashore for dinners and breakfasts.
The Boat: The Beneteau 39 is equipped with Radar, AIS, EPIRB, life raft, jack lines and tethers for offshore safety. Each boat’s crew will get together on Wednesday evening before the trip to go over what to bring, discuss the trip and put together a meal plan.
Agenda: Leave Spinnaker Sailing, Redwood City, Friday 10 AM; leave SF Saturday 7 AM: leave SF Sunday 9 AM and arrive Spinnaker Sailing at about 4 PM.
Cost per Cabin – $1,495.00 – $1,121.25 club members. (Each cabin can accommodate 1-2 persons)
Experience “blue-water” sailing along the California coast for 3 days, 2 nights, round-trip from Redwood City to Half Moon Bay. The 125+ mile trip provides good sailing conditions, beautiful views, sea birds, dolphins, sea lions and whales sightings. We will sail 11 miles out the Gate to the Light Bucket, (the sea buoy that that marks the entrance or exit of the San Francisco shipping channel). On this trip you’ll have an opportunity to steer, trim sail and other onboard tasks as part of the working crew. You’ll navigate out the Gate and follow the coast south to Half Moon Bay. You’ll experience sailing and steering in an ocean swell as well as plotting and navigating. We’ll spend nights on the boat at the docks in SF and HMB where we will eat ashore for dinners and breakfasts.
The Boat: The Beneteau 39 is a 3 cabin equipped with Radar, AIS, EPIRB, life raft, jack lines and tethers for offshore safety. Each boat’s crew will get together on Wednesday evening before the trip to go over what to bring, discuss the trip and put together a meal plan.
Agenda: Leave Spinnaker Sailing, Redwood City, Friday 10 AM; leave SF Saturday 9 AM: leave HMB Sunday 9 AM and arrive Spinnaker Sailing about 4 PM.
Cost per Cabin – $1,495.00 – $1,121.25 club members. (Each cabin can accommodate 1-2 persons)
It’s been often said that if you’re living in the San Francisco Bay Area and you’re not sailing it’s like living in the Alps and not skiing. San Francisco Bay has some of the greatest sailing conditions you’ll find anywhere. When combining great sailing conditions with spectacular scenery a weekend sailing on the Bay is always a memorable experience. Join us for a fun weekend get away and experience the sights and joy of a weekend sailing.
The Boats: We use the Beneteau 39 for this trip. The Beneteau has 3 staterooms and 2 heads. Boat also comes equipped with auto pilot and GPS, chart plotter and radar and AIS.
Provisioning: Skipper and crew will get together ahead of time to choose food and beverage options. Most likely we’ll plan to have breakfast and lunches with dinner ashore.
Cost per Cabin – $895.00 – $671.25 club members. (Each cabin can accommodate 1-2 persons)