Posted by Chuck Tribolet on November 10, 2002 at 08:03:35:
In Reply to: Do you think a live aboard would work on the North Coast? posted by Eric S on November 09, 2002 at 22:10:08:
The North Coast would have the same liveaboard
problem that Monterey has: There's no place
to hide at night. The PacStar ended up spending
nights in Monterey harbor and is now a SoCal
boat -- there's a message there.
In SoCal, the islands (almost) always have a lee
side to hide on.
Betweem weather and Sharks, you can only do the
Farallons a couple of months a year, and I'm not
sure there's enough demand for that. The PacStar
would run Farallons trips a couple of weeks a
year, and would fill them, just. So Farallons
would be a plus, not bread and butter. And I
heard Patriot, while still running shark trips
there, stopped running dive trips due to lack
of demand.
You should ask this on
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ba_diving/
Lot's more bay area divers there.
There plenty of bacteria etc. in the water after
a rain up there -- all those cows! ;-)
Chuck