Delta Rat Scrapbook – by Bill Wells
Taste Of The Delta The 20th Annual Taste of the Delta was a huge success thanks to a great team of volunteers and many local wineries, breweries, restaurants and businesses. The purpose of the...
Delta Rat Scrapbook
Delta Rat Scrapbook – by Bill Wells
Vickie Baumann Retires This is the end of an era in the Delta. Vickie is one of the best known and beloved people in the whole region. She got her fine art degree at...
Delta Rat Scrapbook – by Bill Wells
Tony Kopshever Retires It seems like yesterday that Tony Kopshever was a young lad hanging around the Stockton Yacht Club with his parents, and now he has retired after a 20-year career with the...
Delta Rat Scrapbook – by Bill Wells
Pacific Coast Water Rescue John Garza and his team held a ceremony at the Discovery Bay Marina. It was to honor present and past emergency response folks and included the renaming of two boats....
Delta Rat Scrapbook – by Bill Wells
Historic Re-Launching Of JOIE After a Herculean effort Rusty Areias and Ted Harris completed the restoration on the classic yacht JOIE de Vivre. They trucked her up to the Delta from Southern California more than two...
Delta Rat Scrapbook – by Bill Wells
Pacific Boat Services Ramon Mata took over the old Ladds yard and marina in Stockton over a year ago. Right when he moved in, he started making positive changes; he moved a portable office...
Delta Rat Scrapbook – by Bill Wells
A Dora Blu I met Leo & Carlice Aarens who live in the Netherlands through Per and Ericka Hammarlund on social media. You will remember that Per and Ericka own the classic 1931 Stephens yacht Allure and...
Delta Rat Scrapbook – by Bill Wells
The ARkStorm(s) Back a decade or more when I was on the public committee for the Bay & Delta Conservation Plan (we called it the Bay & Delta Canal Plan) BDCP. After we had...
Delta Rat Scrapbook – by Bill Wells
Ebony Boat Club Change Of Watch The Ebony Boat Club held their COW on a rainy Saturday afternoon at their floating clubhouse at the Stockton Downtown Marina. It was a rainy day and for...
Delta Rat Scrapbook – by Bill Wells
Saint Francis Yacht Club After a two-year pause during the COVID crisis, the club has reinstated its live onsite Wednesday yachting lunches. Typically, there would be a buffet lunch followed by an audio/video presentation...
