To Do: Buy Tickets & Reserve Slip

With the San Francisco Giants scheduled to play their first official game of the 2015 season tonight — and their home opener a week from today — we’re reminded about an item that’s been on our must-do list for far too long: Buy tickets for a night game and reserve an overnight slip at South Beach Harbor. 

The idea, of course, is to gather a group of baseball-lovin’ friends, go out for a daysail around the Central Bay, then pull into a transient slip at South Beach Harbor a couple of hours before game time, thus allowing time for an onboard, pregame ‘tailgate party’. After taking in the game, rather than making the long drive home through traffic, we’ll simply head back to the boat and sleep over, with the promise of another fine daysail the next day to bring the boat back home.

Cool plan, right? The staff at South Beach Harbor tells us that they maintain 20 transient slips for visitors, plus a long side-tie guest dock, and reservations can be made up to two months in advance. The overnight price is $1.25 per foot for boats up to 70 feet (i.e. $50 for a 40-footer). So we suggest you peruse the schedule, and put your own plan into action. Perhaps we’ll see you there. (Go Giants!)