According to the cruising guide there are several anchorages here but the best is the inner harbor. It suggests you anchor out first, take a dinghy in to check the depth. Unless of course there are already boats in the anchorage then typically someone from another boat will come out in a dinghy and wave you in. As I was reading this low and behold there was a guy in a dinghy waving us in. Wow, just like in the book! Nice. We went right into the inner harbor and stayed in the deep water way away from the two catamarans already anchored. I was up on deck lowering the anchor when a guy off a the other catamaran stormed up onto his deck and yelled at me “F&*~ker” and flipped me off. Wow, I thought that was mean. I asked Doug if he thought we were too close. He said how does he know our dogs name? I said that’s not what he said. I had to get out the binoculars to see the name of the boat, SV Katherine Estelle. I don’t think we were too close if I can’t read the name without the binoculars. Next thing I know the guy has his wife on deck pulling up the anchor by hand and they are moving their boat. I was feeling pretty bad, like I had intruded. He moved the boat to the entrance of the harbor and dropped the anchor. I thought this was odd because now he was sort of in the way and I knew SV Windward Bound was right behind us and would come in. About 20 minutes latter Windward Bound scooted into the anchorage around the catamaran and dropped anchor even closer then we had. Again, the guy was up on deck with his wife pulling up the anchor and moving the boat back near us. Apparently SV Windward Bound was familiar with this particular catamaran and anchored near it cause they knew they would move. A few minutes later the other catamaran “Manta” came on the radio laughing saying “Welcome to San Francisquito, the friendliest anchorage in the Sea!” I think he was just glad to see other boats. We all had a good laugh. The next day SV Marionette and latter SV Rapscallion came into the anchorage and the catamaran Katherine Estelle pulled up their anchor and left the anchorage completely.
For the next several days we stayed put in San Francisquito and dove with the folks off of Manta, Marionette, Rapscallion and WindwardBound. We ate fresh caught seafood every night. The diving, dinners and company was great!
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