Half Moon Bay Cruise 9/5/26

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Nice weather was in store for the 5 Islander 36s that sailed out under the Golden Gate Bridge on Saturday, September 5th to kick off the Half Moon Bay Cruise. Gentle 10 - 12 knot winds from the northwest made for an easy ride south for the 24 miles along the coast, past Pt. San Pedro, then Pt. Montara before passing Sail Rock - the imposing backdrop for the famed Maverick's Surf Contest - before rounding green #1 and heading north into Pilar Point Harbor. Green Flash and Zenith took the longer route, going out part of the San Francisco Ship Channel to deeper water - and hopefully more breeze - while Kapai, Luna Sea dn Windcatcher did the runmbline route closer to shore. As the fleet slid south, the breeze got lighter and went aft, time to turn on the engines to make better progress through the prevailing northwest swell and the conflicting southerly swell from hurricanes Karina and Marie far to the south west.

Kapai and Luna Sea managed to get slips in the inner harbor on Dock E, right next to each other, while Green Flash, Zenith and Windcatcher anchored out among the fleet spread before Half Moon Bay Yacht club. Until the last few years, the harbor had dozens of convenient moorings, but their deteriorating condition prompted the removal of all of them, so anchoring now the only option in the outer harbor. There was, however, a big fleet anchored, in part with Richmond YC boats that had also made this a destination cruise. Rick and Sandy (Vanishing Animal) sailed down by car to join the fleet. Here's the list.

Boat	Owner & Crew	How
Green Flash	Mike Patterson & Liz Munnelly	Boat
Kapai	Rick & Cathy Egan, Bryce & Reanne	Boat
Luna Sea	Dan Knox Myphi Alloy, John ?	Boat
Vanishing Animal	Rick & Sandy Van Mell	Car
WindCatcher	Dan Throop	Boat
Zenith	Anthony & Joanne Taylor	Boat

It was just like "old times" as Rick & Sandy joined Rick, Cathy, Bryce and Reanna Egan aboard Luna Sea where skipper Dan Knox poured his signature champagne for everyone and, lest we not have some healthy protien, Myphi added a big Costco tub of edamame for everyone to munch on.

Then it was off to Half Moon Bay Yacht Club for a glass of wine and dinner. Unfortunately, the relatively late arrival had us at HMBYC a little after 1800 and by the time we got registered, tickets for wine and looking for dinner, it was 1830. Alas the food had been so good and the crowd so large that we had slim pickings. The chicken was down to the last few pieces, the corn was small ends, the tomato-cucumber-feta salad and bread were gone and only a little potato salad remained. The promised chocolate chip brownies were gone too. We made the best of what there was and the HMBYC team appologied as well.

But, it was wonderful to have six I-36s represented. We'll add Sunday and Monday pictures and comments as we get them.

HMB Fun!	The Golden Gate from outside	Green Flash ...	Tacks out.	Myphi keeps warm
Fishing fleet at Pilar Pt. Harbor	Commodore and Sandy	Dock E has ...	fishing boats & ...	Luna Sea & Kapai
All secure	Luna Sea too.	Sandy and Dan	Reanne & Bryce	Rick & Cathy
Dan pours champagne	crew is happy ...	Sandy agrees ...	Edamame for all.	Pilar Pt. Pier ...
Harbormaster Office.	At HMB YC ...	lots of boats ...	anchored out.	Checking out the ...
wine choices ...	mission accomplished!	Here come ...	John, Dan & Myphi.	Slim pickings ...
no more chicken.	Liz & Mike, Dan T.	Good sounds!	Coming ashore on ferry raft	Fading sun ...
Kick-back time ...	light wind ...	Old radar.	Dan near Barbara's Fish Trap	Beautiful sky.

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