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Club Nautique
By Yvonne Michie Horn — Spring
2005
If you’re an East Coast resident who can’t
cruise on your own boat’s bottom to California Wine Country, consider
a bareboat or skippered charter with Club Nautique
(800-343-SAIL, www.clubnautique.net).
It has two locations on San Francisco Bay, and for 25 years has provided
powerboat instruction, a trawler charter fleet, club facilities and activities,
and yacht sales.
The bareboat fleet ranges from a Mainship Pilot 30 to
a Mainship Trawler 43 (47-foot LOA), with prices for a weeklong bareboat
cruise starting at $1,244 during the low season on the smallest boat.
Add $75 per hour for a skipper, capped at six hours per day.
If you’re interested in hands-on boating education,
Club Nautique also offers a basic trawler course (16 hours with two days
on the water for $545) aboard a single-screw Mainship Pilot 30. Subjects
include maneuvering in confined quarters and in open water; crew coordination;
overboard recovery; anchoring; knots; boat systems; rules of the road;
VHF use; chart instruction; coastal and celestial navigation; and tides
and currents.
There is also a three-day course aboard a single-screw
Mainship 39 Trawler that includes a trip up the Napa River—so
even beginners can taste the epicurean culture that local cruisers enjoy.
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