Ok, so the ketch turns around and heads toward Sacramento. The outboard on the party boat wailing away and the sails on the ketch still out of trim.  Our group continued westbound until Mike remembered that the tide was about to change. “Those guys weren’t going to get very far on a strong out going tide,” he told me later.  So Mike comes about and catches up with the ill fated ketch.  He yells to them that they should drop anchor and wait for the tide to change. The ketch yells back “Do you know how far it is to Rio Vista.  Mike responds that it’s up ahead and asked if they understood what he’d said about anchoring?  I’m not clear on what happened after that but the ketch continued on their way toward Rio Vista and Mike sailed back home to Antioch.  The next day, Mike’s out riding his motorcycle and sees... You know it.  The 40+ foot steel hulled ketch with the party boat side tied to it.  It’s run aground at the Windsurfing beach.  He pulls over to ask the beach caretaker what happened. The caretaker tells him that the wind picked up to 40 knots last night and that a passing Coast Guard boat saw the ketch in trouble and pulled them off for their own safety.  Apparently the party boat ran out of gas and their anchor lacked a chain rode.  The boat ran aground hard overnight.  On that same day, Red was also out on his motorcycle and happened on the grounded ketch.  He stopped and talked to a guy aboard the ketch who said that he had bought the boat at Bruno’s Island and was taking it to Rio Vista. He blamed his "green crew" for the mishap.