Delta Dawdle: Fleet 4’s Labor Day 2008 Brannan Island to Antioch Cruise.
Participants: “FELICE”, “CHARMED LIFE”, and “MAGIC”
Saturday 11:43. Rigging up “FELICE” at the Brannan Island launch ramp. The weather is perfect:: clear sky, warm sun, and the wind SW at 10~12.
Saturday 13:42. "MAGIC" beating SW in the San Joaquin River with Mt. Diablo dead ahead.
Saturday 13:43. “Lookin’ Good!” – This lovely CT-41 passed us in the San Joaquin River a couple of miles east of the Antioch Bridge.. This ketch is a William Garden design, built in Taiwan sometime in the 1970’s.
Saturday 13:47. “CHARMED LIFE” beating southwest towards the Antioch Bridge with the exhaust stacks of the Contra Costa Generating Station in the background.
Saturday 14:07. San Joaquin river near Antioch Bridge. View east from “MAGIC’s” cockpit
Sunday 14:47. Departure from Antioch, “CHARMED LIFE” approaching the southern entrance to Broad Slough on our way back to Brannan Island.
Sunday 14:45. just a whisper of light breeze in Broad Slough.
Sunday 16:55. “MAGIC” approaching Three Mile Slough from the Sacramento River. The breeze had dissapated in mid-afternoon, so we had motored most of the way from Broad Slough so as to make it back to Brannan Island before ebb tide.
All photos © 2009 by L. G. Charlot