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mooring boat in Gonzaga Bay

yakyak2010 - 8-25-2010 at 12:43 PM

Are there any bad places to moor our 14' aluminum boat in Gonzaga Bay? Either because of tides or wind or safety? Where is the best place to launch (we'll have transom wheels)? We want to launch it and leave it there for 3 or 4 nights near where we camp. We are thinking either Sacrificio, Rancho Grande, Papa's, or even Bufeo. We would prefer a camp with shade(most likely palapas) showers and availibility of freshwater (not for drinking).

dizzyspots - 8-25-2010 at 02:10 PM

would NOT use Rancho Grande...they bladed off the ENTIRE desert between the beach and the store ...when the blows...its a virutal sand storm (been there done that in July)

other choices are fine...just remember the tidal swing...floating now...on the sand later

still planning on going with you on the 18th...any others

Mike & Sharon

boat moor

yakyak2010 - 8-25-2010 at 02:24 PM

Still the 18th and right now, still 5

Bob and Susan - 8-25-2010 at 02:38 PM

i wouldn't moor a small 14 foot boat

too much chance of wind at 1am
you DON'T want to wake up at that time

i would drag it on the beach and push off in the morning

unless of course where you are has too much tide change like san felipe

mcfez - 8-25-2010 at 03:23 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bob and Susan
i wouldn't moor a small 14 foot boat

too much chance of wind at 1am
you DON'T want to wake up at that time

i would drag it on the beach and push off in the morning

unless of course where you are has too much tide change like san felipe


Agree...thats how we do it

cj5orion - 8-26-2010 at 01:54 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by mcfez
Quote:
Originally posted by Bob and Susan
i wouldn't moor a small 14 foot boat

too much chance of wind at 1am
you DON'T want to wake up at that time

i would drag it on the beach and push off in the morning

unless of course where you are has too much tide change like san felipe


Agree...thats how we do it


x2 ! 14 boat.....14 "kite" !!!!

pascuale - 8-26-2010 at 08:57 AM

Dont do it unless you want to wake up in the morning and have your boat under water or floating somewhere across the bay. I have personally seen two boat get swamped in front of Alfonsinas and had my own boat float across the bay and wash up on the rocks, luckily we found it. If it is a 14ft aluminum, drag it up on the beach, no other way to go. The wind can come up there out of nowhere and in any direction at any time. We moor the panga we fish on but it is 24 ft. The boats i saw swamped were too close to shore and the water was too shallow so after a low tide push to high tide with some wind, they went down.