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well it's the next morning

it's nice and calm in this anchorage

china camp is uh

an interesting place we have yet to go

to shore to explore

you know we were anchored out there in

the middle of the night

we made the decision to to move in it

just was not laying down

it was lumpy hitting us on our beam and

it was very uncomfortable

as soon as we moved in we got out of

that current

and the majority of the wind but the

downside is

this is a very shallow bay you know here

we are a couple hundred feet

off of shore right now and at high tide

we're sitting in nine feet of water

at low tide about five feet

so it's just uh not much distance

between our

rudders and the muddy bottom

but luckily it's it was a calm evening

you know

everything laid down about midnight one

o'clock and we slept well

well the girls are going to go to shore

this morning

i'll shuttle them in and i'll come back

and stick with the boat the winds have

just been real unpredictable here

i just don't feel safe leaving the boat

without somebody on board

so let's get them into shore and they'll

go exploring

okay you girls have fun

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this has been a really good hike right

emma it's so beautiful

and we actually saw a bunch of deer that

was awesome it was pretty cool they

weren't really scared of us

but you know we kept our distance yeah

this camp

actually has a lot of memories for teal

and i

because gosh i don't want to say how

long it was but

years ago when teal and i were on the

hunt for our first boat

we took a long weekend and drove from

washington

down here because there was a

sailboat that we wanted to look at but

it happened to be

a holiday weekend so there was

absolutely zero hotel rooms available

for us

and plus we were young and we were

pretty broke so

we were driving around kind of figuring

out where we're gonna stay for the night

because we couldn't see the boat until

the next day and we

happened upon this campsite and uh the

whole place was packed

so the guy ended up taking pity on us

and told us that we can sneak in for the

night

i think it was like 10 bucks and uh

yeah so we camped here and then the next

day we found our first boat

so awesome place

yeah brings back a lot of great memories

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china camp state park is a state park of

california

known for its hiking mountain biking

trails

and scenic views aside from that it has

a rich history

after the gold rush and the completion

of the transcontinental railroad

demand for chinese laborers abated the

chinese had to find other work

this land was leased to chinese shrimp

fishermen most of these fishermen had

come from canton in the maritime

province of kuantang china

by the early 1880s china camp was one of

the many

coastal fishing villages in the bay area

with nearly 500 residents

san pablo bay's mud flats provided an

ideal

grass shrimping location nearly 3

million pounds of shrimp were caught

each year

dried and exported to china despite its

successes

china camp's population began to decline

after the chinese exclusion act of 1882

which forbade

new chinese laborers to come to the u.s

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we just spent our last night at anchor

here at china camp it was our third

night here

we wanted to stay here a few days so we

could explore

but this anchorage

it's beautiful beautiful views girls had

a great time on their walk

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but the current versus the wind as the

tides come in the current goes one

direction then they turn and reverse and

go the other direction

and the winds do that same thing every

morning the winds will come

out of the southwest and in the evenings

out of the northwest so you're doing

this dance at anchor

all night long and it's just an

uncomfortable feeling and the winds

picked up a few times so we got some

heavy fetch in here

it's a real kind of muddy bottom and

all the good spots are crowded with all

derelict vessels there's nobody on any

of these boats

so it puts us out at the outskirts of

this anchorage so i'm gonna give this

anchorage

a two out of ten it's just

it just wasn't real comfortable for us

last night was the best of the three

nights

but it's time to go wind's supposed to

pick up here

in the bay tonight and i don't want to

be here and have another one of those uh

events where we have two foot fetch

hitting us on our beam for

five hours so we're gonna sail across

the san pablo bay it's about a 10 mile

sail just across the bay

over to the san joaquin sacramento river

entrance and we'll head up

into the river system and try to find a

nice little anchorage for tonight

so it should be good sail nice light

breeze right now

calm conditions and the sun's out

it's so peaceful when we get to sail off

the anchor

there's not much wind right now but it's

still pretty cool

it is you got it under control

under control yeah i'm hanging on all

right because i think i'm going to go

make breakfast for everybody that sounds

wonderful hang on tight

i am these are picking up here yeah

got the one inch waves right now

well my morning just got a little better

i could smell

what do i smell in there

so peaceful just a quiet leisurely sale

lin's in cooking breakfast

and we're just still drifting along no

complaints it's uh

it's a beautiful day

wind's picking up a little bit and the

current's slowing down a little bit so

we're still holding

pretty steady no rush

we can see the bridge already

there's your breakfast

thank you you're welcome

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well we're making way slowly just

drifting across

san pablo bay it's 10 miles across

it's weird to think though that the

majority of this

bay is 10 feet or less at low tide

it's a very shallow bay we're sticking

close to the

channel just to get a little depth

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but you got to be careful there's a lot

of big

ships coming in in and out all day long

here

believe it or not these ships

they head all the way up to stockton

from here

up the san joaquin river

it's amazing anyway luckily we're

running with the tide there's just

barely a breeze

just enough to keep our sails full and

keep our heading true

we're still making three knots we're in

no hurry

it's early morning when there is no wind

but we're enjoying it

it's just peaceful

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okay so as we started coming up the

sacramento and san joaquin river system

the temperature started rising we were

in the 70s

out on san pablo bay up into the upper

90s in here

it was a drastic temperature change and

worst of all

the smoke is getting thicker and thicker

as we come up in here there's a new

wildfire not too far from here

that is uh blowing right right to our

location

and it's amazing how much it's affected

us just in the last few hours yeah it's

really

bad i mean you can the air quality is

really bad

you can see the the haze the smoke and

we're actually seeing it come down

on our decks so it's um it's time to

yeah we've dropped the hook here in

benicia

we're gonna lock up the boat try to get

inside and uh keep the smoke out of the

cabin

but it's awful warm out so it'll be uh

it'll be difficult

we have a lot of ash already raining

down on us so it'll be nice

uh we're gonna try to get into a marina

for the next day or two because

we need to wash this off it's not good

for your paint not good for the paint

and

we have we you know we've been

discussing as a family what we want to

do over the next

couple of months with this current world

environment

and these i mean the pandemic the

wildfires

everything just it's just we've had an

awesome 2020. it hasn't

you know what though we'll remember this

forever i know but it's time for us to

figure out do we travel south do we go

up in the delta

do we kind of hang tight and get our

projects done i mean this is actually a

great opportunity for us to

tackle some of the big projects that we

were holding off and trying to travel at

the same time

with basically the world kind of slowing

down with travel restrictions

i think that this is perfect for us and

it's i think so as well

and uh so what we're going to do is

concentrate on

getting this boat dialed in build the

hard top

do some of the other big projects that

we need to do to make this boat

comfortable for world travel

and hopefully things simmer down in the

next few months

and we could get on with our journey but

for now

i think i don't smell smoke i smell a

hard top in my future

you know i still smell smoke but maybe a

washdown

oh there's a the list is endless and

we'll go over that

but right now it's let's get into a

marina because there's a lot of

logistics for us to handle

yeah lynn's going to be on the phone

trying to find uh

supplies supplies and marinas and where

are we gonna go

yeah over the next few days we're gonna

figure all this out

and if it's possible i think it needs to

happen

i think it will happen we just have to

we just have to work hard and get it

and get it done

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it was really nice to be on a dock again

after being on the hook for almost two

weeks

my mom and i took full advantage of the

dark water

and scrub basic top to bottom it was

lots of work

but basically was really dirty

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we also took compass on lots of walks

for some exercise

and he was really happy after that

drop ahead

go away the best part of being in the

delta

is that the water is so much warmer so

i'm taking full advantage of that

classic emma goblin cannonball

perfect

dropped off the keys we are all set

and ready to head back out again we came

here

the other night and it was just kind of

nice to

be on a dock to be able to drop off

garbage

pick up some supplies fill up with fresh

water

and make those calls i feel pretty good

that we are ready to head back out again

for probably another week and then at

that point it's the big move

to napa marina teal

is kind of just getting everything

prepared

i already made a ton of food so that we

can just relax at anchor

gonna be spending a about a week in the

san joaquin

um delta system so that'll be kind of

fun

it's been a while

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we all set and ready to go about 10

minutes we will

i'm kind of excited i know this would be

good been a while since we've been in

the san joaquin

delta system i know i'm thinking of

exploring uh grizzly bay today

i want i want you guys to do some

fishing oh for sure

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