Drove south last Thursday, from
Oregon to Moss Landing Ca. Shasta lake
water level was dam near in the trees, very nice to see. Shasta dam was in free fall, over the overflow side. Redding,Red Bluff and towns south along the Sacramento River are at flood stage.
Oroville, and Folsom are pumping big time. All thee fields and orchards along I-5 were covered in
water. Was good to see. We're at a friends in Sonoma Ca, picking up sailboat
parts. Sonoma Creek or River ? Runs thru his back yard, and is perhaps 100 feet in a gully in his back yard.
The river was four feet from the top and rising when we left. Rained hard hard hard, barely made it over Highway 17 into
Santa Cruz as land was sliding in multiple locations.
We got to Moss Landing, my SV is in the corner, and we discovered that the river has flood gates that open perhaps 40/50 feet behind my
boat. The river was high enough their was white water.
My
boat was physically covered in whitish froth, the entire boat! I was and am not a real happy camper. This shits tasting my clean boat.
Someone had disconnected my
shore power and I had water almost to the
deck plates. Again not real happy.
O well. Friday morning, we towed her down to Moss Landing dry
dock and put her
on the hard, roughly 15:00.
Power washed the bottom and started
sanding the bottom for needed
repairs.
Roughly 8 hours of
sanding and
repairs, and
bottom paint was applied, we were done by 14:00.
Used a fork
lift to
lift my 4-108 m imto the
deck, and eventually into the
engine dog house. Took a few hours for the install. Sunday morning,
motor stated and ran
on the hard, for a short period of time.
Monday back in the water at 13:00, out imto Monterey bay for a couple hours of motoring, edging system checks.
Headed home yesterday, a difficult task with all the land slides, ended up, going north on highway 1, to half moon bay, then across into, San Meteo. And back home.
I'm tired, we kicked ass with zero breaks sanding painting, and installing motors.
Back down in a few weeks, to tune the wire, and put up the
sails for a few hours on the bay.
I'm wanting to
head north within the next 60 days.
Dirk