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RAIDS are small-boat, usually sail and oar boat, get-togethers which are part cruise, part race. Examples are Sail Caledonia and the Shipyard RAID in northern Puget Sound
http://www.sailcaledonia.org/
http://www.shipyardraid.ca/
Basically, a mess of sail and oar boats get together at a starting point. Sometimes there's a "mother ship" which usually is a big, traditional sailing craft, which carries along the Barbeque, repair stuff, etc. etc. Everybody pushes off the beach at the same time in the morning. You make your way by sail or oar, your choice, to the first stopover, which is usually 16-20 miles away. Whoever gets there, "wins" that leg, and handicaps be damned. This continues for 4-8 days with mostly camping-style parties on the beach along the way. Bring a tent. Or not.
SO.
The Shipyard RAID hasn't happened for a year or two, I think. I know some guys from the Wooden Boat forum are putting together something like this on the Columbia River.
I'm thinking the San Francisco Bay and Delta could handle something like this. So if you've got a boat that can sail AND row and you are prepared to carry all your personal gear...well.
In theory anyway, who wants in? I'm thinking mid July, maybe?
Proposed course....more or less, I suppose... I'm making this up as I go along.
Day 1: Push off the beach at the parking lot by the Coast Guard Station at the cove just under the Northernmost end of the GG Bridge nice and early...first stop, China Camp, Marin Co.
Day 2: cross San Pablo Bay and tie up in ..I dunno, Benicia. Like I said, I'm making this up as I write it.
Day 3: Benicia to somewhere in the Delta halfway to Stockton. I don't know the area at all.
Day 4: Rest of the way to Stockton. Celebratory dinner. Grovel before whoever shuttled the trailer. Load up that night or the next morning and head out.
No trophy. No tshirt. No handicaps. No entry fee. No whining.
http://www.sailcaledonia.org/
http://www.shipyardraid.ca/
Basically, a mess of sail and oar boats get together at a starting point. Sometimes there's a "mother ship" which usually is a big, traditional sailing craft, which carries along the Barbeque, repair stuff, etc. etc. Everybody pushes off the beach at the same time in the morning. You make your way by sail or oar, your choice, to the first stopover, which is usually 16-20 miles away. Whoever gets there, "wins" that leg, and handicaps be damned. This continues for 4-8 days with mostly camping-style parties on the beach along the way. Bring a tent. Or not.
SO.
The Shipyard RAID hasn't happened for a year or two, I think. I know some guys from the Wooden Boat forum are putting together something like this on the Columbia River.
I'm thinking the San Francisco Bay and Delta could handle something like this. So if you've got a boat that can sail AND row and you are prepared to carry all your personal gear...well.
In theory anyway, who wants in? I'm thinking mid July, maybe?
Proposed course....more or less, I suppose... I'm making this up as I go along.
Day 1: Push off the beach at the parking lot by the Coast Guard Station at the cove just under the Northernmost end of the GG Bridge nice and early...first stop, China Camp, Marin Co.
Day 2: cross San Pablo Bay and tie up in ..I dunno, Benicia. Like I said, I'm making this up as I write it.
Day 3: Benicia to somewhere in the Delta halfway to Stockton. I don't know the area at all.
Day 4: Rest of the way to Stockton. Celebratory dinner. Grovel before whoever shuttled the trailer. Load up that night or the next morning and head out.
No trophy. No tshirt. No handicaps. No entry fee. No whining.
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