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Looking for a team building event?  Or maybe just a good time with friends for a memorable occasion?  Try a Wine and Cheese Cruise or even local Coastal Viewing Cruise.  Read the article below about the Mavericks Event.  Pigeon Point Lighthouse is about 18 miles by water.  Get a new perspective on the Central California Coast!  Take a ride on the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary!  Look for Sea Otters, Harbor Seals, Sea Lions, Pelicans, Murre birds, Cormorants, Whales, Dolphins and more!
  

Get your friends or co-workers together, get hors d'oeuvres and beverages of your choice.  If you do not feel like bringing the food and beverage, ask us!  There are local caterers, or we may be able to pick things up to help your event be successful!  We can cruise the inner harbor where waves are not an issue.  $200 per hour with a three hour minimum. 

Weddings!  Birthday parties!  Graduations!  Take friends or relatives on the water!  The Huli Cat has a CD system, so bring some CD's and let's cruise! 

Outside: Monster Surfers

While the sun rises like a fried egg over the green, lumpy mountains to the east, a crew of media prepare for a full day at sea. The writers and photogaphers are going out to cover this year’s Mavericks’ Surf Contest on the Huli Cat, a 53-foot long sportfishing boat docked in Half Moon Bay’s harbor. On the deck, San Francisco Chronicle staff writer Paul McHugh seems to be excited about spending eight hours adrift on the boat during crushing swells. “I can’t wait to see them write on the canvas,” he says. “It should be some great art.”

Outside of the door of the men’s bathroom, a couple of journalists are nervous about today’s journey. They swap remedies for seasickness as the boat’s captain instructs everyone to sign a manifest resting on a desk inside the cabin. One of them talks about how a good many of the journalists covering the event a year before spent the whole day puking over the side of a boat into the rushing water. As the Huli Cat pulls out of the harbor, a photographer from a San Mateo paper confides to her colleague that she will probably be vomiting in a short while. On the way out to the monstrous surf break, a buoy marking the channel rings like a bell signaling the beginning of a boxing match.
 

Located a half mile off Pillar Point, Mavericks is one of the most famous big-wave surf spots in the world. Besides monster waves that can top 30 feet and a water temperature that hovers in the icey mid-50s, the spot’s legend has grown due in part to a shark attack in 2000 and the crushing death of legendary big wave rider Mark Foo in 1994.

Starting in 1999, the Mavericks Surf Contest has assembled some of the most renowned big wave surfers in the world, including Ken Bradshaw, Kelly Slater and three-time contest winner Darryl “Flea” Vitrosko. The contest took a few years off and returned last year.

This year, the event was scheduled for any time big enough waves break during a four-month period from the first of December to the last of March. Contestants had only 24 hours notice about the event.

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