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Sailing for Crabs
Mike Pouliot had the good fortune to be out sailing on the Bay midweek, aboard his Yankee 30 Emerald. As an added bonus, he managed to catch a good feed of crabs along the way — just in time for Christmas!
We left Alameda at 7:30 a.m. and soon found a nice easterly wind to push us out the Gate. We dropped two crab pots at the “secret spot,” which is basically the closest legal spot to drop them.
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We then sailed north along the coast to roughly Pirates Cove as the pots soaked, on a truly glorious day of sunshine with relatively flat water and variable but consistently present wind.
We were rewarded with a dozen crabs, including a couple of really nice Dungeness, before sailing home. We shook out a reef along the Cityfront and finally motored in once we got near the Bay Bridge and lost all wind. One hell of a Wednesday!
![Crabs in pot](https://www.latitude38.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Crabs-in-pot.jpeg)
![Sailing home to SF](https://www.latitude38.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/sv-Emerald-heading-to-SF.jpeg)
So, Mike, where did you say the secret spot is? If anyone else knows where the crabs are, feel free to let us know ….