Don’t buy a wooden boat…buy a fiberglass one and add as much wood as possible.    I don’t know who said that catchy phrase, well, actually, I think it is just me saying it. Our Kingsley boat project of last week was heading over to my friends shop and working on new galley sink/trash covers [...]

I AMREMINDED very forcibly now and then that while men change, and manners change,and even boats change, the sea does not. I have often heard that the best wayof riding out a gale at sea is to heave to, but this is what I read the otherday in a 1946 edition of A  Manual for [...]

Soooo, once again I’ve been too busy to update the blog on anything approaching a regular basis, and now I’m left with a tonne of things to post about. It’s currently 7am on a Saturday morning, and I’ve been driven out of bed by the noise of dozens of little fish hurling themselves out of [...]

We are now back in La Paz after spending three magical weeks exploring the Sea of Cortez a hundredish miles north of here. While our To Do List Before Crossing the Pacific consumes us now, we tried to put it out of our minds during our time up north and just enjoy exploring this stunning [...]

ONE OF MYMANY FAULTS IS THIS: When I am out cruising, I try to look smarter than I really am.  Mostly it works. But not always. A while backwe were cruising with a buddy-boat manned by a couple inexperienced in the kindof mooring you have to do in some places up the road in British Columbia.Smugglers’ [...]

In a way, we have been provisioning for our time in the Pacific since San Francisco. I began tucking away fun treats from the Trader Joe’s there to pull out some day when we needed something new. Then we made a mega Whole Food’s run in Long Beach thanks to Steve on our sistership Desolina. [...]

The National Aids to Navigation Museum is located in Yorktown, Virginia at the USCG Training Center, in the atrium of Canfield Hall.  The Museum is open to everyone that has access to the base, this sadly limits the access by … Continue reading →