THE Peninsula Yacht Club in Redwood City is roast beef, peas, baked potatoes and salad. Like every Friday, one of the members has cooked. It's all you can eat for 5 bucks, and everybody helps themselves.
Folks filter in from the slight evening chill, greeting one another with a wave or a shout.
But nobody has come from very far tonight. The marinas line Redwood Creek and the narrow sloughs that wind their way toward the deeper water of the bay. Pleasure boats mix with those doubling as homes along rented sections of the docks known as slips. Electricity and water lines connect a wide assortment of boats. Massive, gleaming power cruisers sit beside small, battered sailboats and two-masted clippers.