Sent you a pm. But I want to use this question to highlight what a terrific place the SF Bay-Delta is to mess around in boats in. The Bay is dominated by sailing, but cruising around in a tug is ideal. It may not match the potential of the PNW, but you can stay busy exploring new places and visiting old favorites for a very long time. Some highlights we have enjoyed:
1) a cheap place to live while in San Francisco! For the price of one night's hotel you can stay on your boat for a month.
2) McCovey Cove and burning brats on the bbq during a Giants game or tailgates in Berkeley Marina before a Cal game (which they inevitably lose)
3) Pulling up to the dock at Sam's in Tiburon and having brunch on the balcony or Scott's in Oakland
4) fishing for salmon, halibut, rock fish and lingcod--or just Dungeness crab--just outside of the Golden Gate, and slaying stripers inside the Bay
5) Spending the weekend in downtown Petaluma at the turning basin or hanging out in Benicia's little cafes or wandering up into Suisun Marsh and spending the night in Suisun City
6) Heading to the South Bay near Alviso for a night on the hook in a remote setting surrounding by thousands of waterfowl and sturgeon leaping out of the water (really!)
7) Spending a long weekend--or even a week--heading into the Delta and its 500 miles of waterways. Favorite stop is Mildred Island--a flooded Delta island/polder--for a night on the hook with Mount Diablo to the south, the Sierras to the east and the fog of the Bay to the west.
8) Taking a week and motoring all the way up to Sacramento and hanging out in Midtown and Oldtown for a few.
etc. Washington has Puget Sound and the Salish Sea, Portland has the Columbia and Snake Rivers, and California has the San Francisco Bay-Delta. Everything else just pales....
welcome to the Bay!
