San Francisco Bay Adventures

2011-08-30T15:10:00.000-07:00

The Great San Francisco Schooner Race 2011 was hotly contested.
The Freda B runs a vintage 'Flooper" sail while going wing and wing for the finnish.

2011-08-24T10:23:00.000-07:00

Chilean tall ship Esmerelda visits San Francisco and held an open house, welcoming friends and family aboard for the afternoon. She is the second largest sailing vessel and the expanses of deck and canvas serve as an inspiration for crew and visitors alike...how can one not be impressed ?

The officers and cadets extended every hospitality to visitors, and we can't thank you enough !!

2011-08-24T10:05:00.000-07:00

Goodwill visit from the Russian Navy

2011-08-24T10:01:00.001-07:00

The SF Maritime Museum's Gracie Quan, build in the traditional manner of the old Chinese shrimp fisherman at China Camp S.P. makes for the Golden Gate to welcome the Polynesian Ocean Voyaging canoes

2011-08-24T09:58:00.000-07:00

Cpt. Harold Summer's old Crowley Tug making the rounds on Richardson's Bay after a day of work....the old man ould be proud !

2011-08-24T09:50:00.000-07:00

Six Traditional Ocean Voyaging catamarans from throughout the western Pacific coverged on San Francisco after navigating in the length of the Pacific using only the traditional methods, handed down from generation to generation for over a thousand years ! Look Ma, no GPS !!

Hats off to the builders, and crews for visiting our shores and proving, it can be done.

2011-06-16T17:42:00.000-07:00

To weather at 17 knots
Quick acceleration off the jibe even without the headsails

headsails set, and off to Aquatic park, pronto !

2010-10-30T15:21:00.000-07:00

Giants Fans are the most passionate fans anywhere

2010-10-30T15:10:00.001-07:00

World Series Games 1 and 2 in San Francisco 2010

Giants Baseball

2010-10-30T15:03:00.000-07:00

2010-09-11T16:05:00.000-07:00

2010 St Francis Yacht Club's Big Boat Series is the West Coast's only Grand Prix Regatta.
Get close to the action and watch these top teams compete for speed and glory !

2010-09-11T15:55:00.000-07:00

Freda B sails to a second place in the Great San Francisco Schooner Race Hosted by the San Francisco Yacht Club. Winds were in the steady high 20's and gusts well into the 30's. Under a reefed fore the crew coaxed her to second place !

2010-04-29T15:12:00.000-07:00

2010-04-03T12:56:00.000-07:00

2010-03-30T14:08:00.000-07:00

2009-12-11T12:55:00.000-08:00

2009-12-11T12:32:00.000-08:00

2009-09-03T11:17:00.000-07:00

2009-09-03T11:03:00.000-07:00

The St. Franci Yacht Club hosts the 505 World Championships.

Conditions were grueling with over 50 masts damaged out of a 90 boat fleet.

The final day's best quote was over the race committe comm about a boat that had swamped

"we are way beyond a bilge pump"

2009-07-25T12:58:00.000-07:00

The Mexican Navy's Tall Ship full of Cadets and officers spent the week in San Francisco.

Dignitaries and representatives from the US Navy, Governer's office and local Merchant Mariners met onboard for a formal reception and welcome ceremony. The ship was in full glow with beautiful food, drinks and elegantly dressed Naval Officers. Thanks for your hospitality and generosity....Fair Seas....San Francisco appreciates it !

2009-06-20T16:07:00.000-07:00

2009-06-20T15:43:00.000-07:00

The 37th Anual Lake Tahoe Concours d'Elegance.

Sponsored by the Tahoe Yacht Club Foundation and Sierra Boat Works.

2008-09-26T15:21:00.000-07:00

2008-09-23T11:35:00.000-07:00

The competition is always fierce at the Rolex Big Boat Series......Grand Prix's West Coast Venue

2008-09-06T14:25:00.000-07:00

Rolex Big Boat Series

September 11-14

Get a Front Row Seat On A Bay Adventures Boat !

The R/P 70 Akela Tuning up For The

Rolex Big Boat Series 2008

2008-08-17T11:34:00.000-07:00

Enjoy the Blue Angels Air Show from a Front Row Seat Aboard a Private Yacht on October 10~11~12

2008-08-15T13:32:00.000-07:00

The Radical International Skiffs tear up the Bay.

Blasting through the 'washing machine' of the Central Bay with 30kts of breeze and a 4.5 knot ebb, You have perfect Summer conditions

2008-08-15T13:22:00.001-07:00

Wow, What a picture perfect day of Tall Ship Sailing into the Bay.

Led by the Us Eagle with her distinctive 4 head sail rig!!

2008-02-29T13:27:00.000-08:00

The Amazing Gitana

Bay Adventures staff left the dock at 07:00 to meet the great Cat in the ocean. At 07:45 we were tucked into the lee of Point Bonita, calling ashore to get her latest position. When we heard she was six miles out, we left the protection of Point Bonita and proceeded west to R-#6 at the edge of the Potato Patch. The swells were powerful 6-8 footers at a 12 second interval with light winds from the NNW. It was big for a 22' Rib. We went all the way out to #8 before we spotted her huge rig in the early mist and light. Even from 1.5 miles, her great size and power were apparent. We met her there and in the cold silence of the Ocean the tension of light winds so close to the voyages end was a feeling most sailors have had to sit with. Constant trimming, the solent getting furled, and the huge genoa getting raised and finnally sheeted in. She moved through the water with a startling efficiency given the light winds.....10 knots over the bottom, against the ebb in around 10 kts of wind. Very Impressive!

Congratulations on an amazing passage!

2008-02-01T22:07:00.000-08:00

Gold Race from New York to San Francisco

Record Holder Yves Parlier at 57 days 23 min.

Come out to see the record fall !

31/01/2008 - 13:38 - The pause before the Horn
Only 600 miles to Cape Horn, the “peak” of our southern trek, a 98° change in latitude from New York. Our trip south was fast up to the equator, and since then it has alternated between high and low phases, which is never good for the average. The same pattern held true over the past 24 hours, during which we had to settle for a score of only 336 miles. After a really rough night, our first foray into the 40s started out nice and calm. “We've just entered bird country,” said skipper Lionel Lemonchois. All around us, various varieties of petrels, including black ones, puffins and the first albatross, small ones, frolicked around Gitana 13 as we gradually lost speed. Crossing the high-pressure ridge was slower than expected and, surrounded by the incredible purity of majestic blue, we dropped the mainsail for a general inspection in the sun.Once we finished taking apart and checking the batten slides, we put the main back up amid a rising wind from the north quadrant, a sign that we’d arrived on the right side of the ridge. Thus began another sprint, flying the big and then small gennaker, with one or no reef in the mainsail. After a night of fantastic beauty, we were again busy in the “gym” before dawn Thursday morning with another gennaker switch, as the breeze began to soften, a harbinger of the next obstacle to come. To keep things interesting, this time we had to make our way around a small low-pressure system. In a few hours, the gennaker should be back in its bag, and we expect to continue nearly close-hauled toward the Le Maire Channel, which we hope to reach tomorrow, 1 February, during the day. Skipper Lemonchois gets the last word: “This route is thrilling, and like anything that’s thrilling, it’s not easy. We’re trying to do things as intelligently as possible, to be as responsive as possible, as we go from one weather system to the next. That requires a lot of work on the map table as well as on deck. But at least there's no time to get bored.” The other nine of us can confirm these words! We haven’t had time to crack any of the books we brought onboard, and tomorrow we’ll be busy thinking about the Horn. So as for reading …Good night

2007-11-30T13:54:00.000-08:00

Even though it's cold early in the mornings, the air is clear and dramatic at Schoonamaker Point in Sausalito.

2007-11-30T13:04:00.000-08:00

Herring spawn 2007

Herring spawn 2006

Richardson Bay slowly begins to assume a look of a typical November morning. Pelicans and sea gulls feast on schools of Herring as seals drive them to the surface.

The pictures show a significant difference in the amount of wildlife that is present after the oil spill.

2007-07-19T16:20:00.000-07:00

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