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Day 10: The Shit Diaries, Golden Showers and Shit

13 August 2012

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Day 10: The Shit Diaries, Golden Showers and Shit

As we discussed before, living on a boat means a lot of things, namely getting to play with your own shit water in far flung, yet undeniably scenic locations. I’m thinking it’s a kind of instant karma for getting to do all that sailing about in the water and the traveling all over the place […]

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Squeaky Birds in the Bilge

12 May 2012

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Squeaky Birds in the Bilge

We’ve got a bilge that’s impenetrably dark and seriously, deep enough to hide bodies in. For real. We haven’t actually field tested this particularly handy feature. Yet. Still, it’s nice to know we could take on a crapload of water and it would mostly just spiral down into the uncharted territory of the deepest parts […]

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Yes, it really was that humongus

10 April 2012

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Yes, it really was that humongus

You can try and hammer common sense into your kids until you’re blue in the face. Past a certain point they selectively filter out our voices and anything that actually gets through sounds like the grownups on a Peanuts cartoon. Parents, you know what I’m talking about. It’s a fact, they’ve done studies–sometimes, kids have […]

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How to Make Ice Cream at Anchor

8 April 2012

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How to Make Ice Cream at Anchor

First, buy two 190 watt solar panels and 4 golf cart batteries, plus a Magnum 2000 watt inverter and a sub-panel for your outlets. Install all that stuff. Now go buy another 190 watt panel, two more 6V batteries, a Blue Sky charge controller and some big 2/0 wire and install it as well. Next […]

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15

1 April 2012

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15

Already. A decade and a half it’s been since the universe and the gods that be saw fit to favor us with the most wonderful and capricious April Fool’s day gift ever. People are always surprised we didn’t know ahead of time that Eli was going to have achondroplastic dwarfism. “Didn’t you have, like, prenatal […]

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We’re SOOOOOOOOOOO Famous!

27 November 2011

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I should have posted this 2 weeks ago but we didn’t have wifi good enough to load pictures; We made it safely into Half Moon Bay , it was not a very nice sail at all. A big confused sea and a bad wind direction in relation to the swell meant that we had to […]

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Occupy Oakland

2 November 2011

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Eli is being home schooled so we always look for experiences to educate him. Today as we were driving through Oakland after a Doctor’s appointment, right past the encampment, Eli voiced some real interest in what was going on. We decided to park and have a look. We walked around through the group of protesters […]

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Latitude 38

2 November 2011

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There’s a great sailing magazine called latitude 38 here in the San Francisco Bay area. In the November issue they’re running a nice article about us. If you want to see it you can go to latitude38.com and click on the magazine cover, the picture of the happy kids on a boat. Then you will […]

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First Sail?

26 October 2011

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We’re planning to take our beautiful girl, Landfall, out for her first sail in many years today. The conditions look great. I hope she enjoys her return to what she was destined for. I’m telling us that it’s nothing to be nervous about and that it’s just like when we’ve motored about except that we’ll […]

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First Night

11 September 2011

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We slept aboard last night, the first time since right after Eli got the tracheostomy about 12 1/2 years ago. It was the first good night’s sleep that I’ve had in many years. You just can’t sleep like this anywhere else. This boat has the most seakindly motion and in fact it’s even nicer on […]

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