I took advantage of the opportunity to see my brother Matt and his wife Julia and their 3-week old baby Andrew briefly up in Sausalito. I drove up on a Friday night to San Francisco where Mia was staying for attorney convention business. My mom also drove over to Matt and Julia's so it was all of us together for Sunday afternoon. It was pretty surreal seeing them cooperatively take care of this tiny baby and also realizing I'm now an Uncle.

While there I stepped out to make a call to the marina office and got the good news that a different slip will be available to move to. The whole point has been to get as far away from the Shade Hotel as possible. That place is garbage and devastating to the area as far as the boating community is concerned. But money talks and alcohol and food is enough to get everyone with authority in the city persuaded to go along with it.

Anyway the following weekend on the night of the hotel's official (like 6th) grand opening, we started the motor on A Cenoura, took the dock lines and shorepower cord with us, and tied up to another dock about 200 yards away. It's quieter, darker, and we're facing bow-south now which I think will be cooler inside and better in the summer. We can park closer to the dock and use the bathrooms that don't usually have homeless people hanging out around the doors. So it's a win-win-win-win-win. It took two dock-cart trips to relocate the stuff in my dockbox and that was it. Probably will go down as the easiest move of my life. The following day I went to clean and scrub out anything remaining in my dockbox (soggy sand paper, some screws and washers) and the hotel was visibly trashed from their party. Cigarettes were all over the walkway and blowing into the water, hotel towels thrown from balconies were blanketing sea life on the rocks underwater, plastic "keg" cups were scattered around probably tossed off balconies...all of these images just get under my skin and defy the whole "environmentally friendly" lie that the hotel portrays.

So I'm happy that we moved a little bit away from the money taking monstrosity but when I think about the rules they're breaking and getting away with and the widespread and significant damage across the value and safety of the marina and marine life surrounding it, I get upset. Luckily now that it's a little easier to keep it out of sight and out of mind that means I probably won't complain more on my website about it. You're welcome.

Final night in this slip was the grand opening for the awful intrusive hellish hotel

Chapters

Mid November