I may be missing something here, but how do you remove BEFORE cooking if you're supposed to cook the crab while they're still alive?

Do you really live out at Point Bonita?  Ever thought about wheeling a yak down the trail from the Upper Fisherman's parking lot?  Seems like a bit of a project but maybe easier than some of the hike in's I've read about on this site.  I've landed on that beach once after paddling out from Ft. Baker and it's super protected, especially during summer/fall.  About a 10 minute walk down the trail, a couple of tricky steps near the bottom but seems doable with the right wheels.

Thanks for the heads up on this!  BTW, there is a link to the rebate on theGPSstore page.

Awesome beach on the East/SE side of the island, very protected, and you'd probably have it to yourself.  Make sure you access it from the north though as that SE point (closest to Alcatraz) has some nasty current.  There's a small public launch in Sausalito on Bridgeway @ Turney St., near the old Margaritaville restaurant.

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8600104,-122.4855016,19z

more info on the Mission Creek launch in the thread below, with pics by me

http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=26727.msg284813#msg284813

I would echo what Chivo707 said, the Ft. Baker Coast Guard station is probably your best bet.  It's too bad their isn't a more viable launch in downtown Tiburon, although there is actually a small beach labeled "Public Shore" in front of the last building along Main Street near the entrance to the Corinthian Yacht club.  The actual access is pretty poor however, as you'd need to park in the downtown lot and sling your yak over a railing as I recall.  The beach I'm thinking of is the one where the Tiburon Mile swim race ends,

what fishcomb said, only more like Dux or somewhere closer

My daughter just did surf camp there mid-July and when we dropped her off I went down to the beach and couldn't figure out why I had read so many comments about it being a bad launch spot.  Maybe the conditions that day were abnormal, but it looked pretty doable.  Oh yeah, there was also HALF a sea lion on the beach, so maybe that was it.