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Duct Tape On The Rocks

27 March 2013

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Duct Tape On The Rocks

“If…anchorage…Duct Tape is on the rocks…,” was pretty much all I picked out before the VHF went crazy with static and people stepping on each other. We turned up the radio and started sweeping the far shoreline with binoculars. “Don’t know if anyone can help…looks pretty bad…please, there’s a boat on the rocks outside the […]

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Not Saying Goodbye

4 March 2013

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The first time I met Hans (S/V Lifee P. Baker), he was adrift in a dinghy out in the middle of Cruiseport Village Marina in Ensenada. We were heading the opposite direction, toward the laundromat. “Do you think he needs a tow?” I asked Steve, as we watched Hans trying to resuscitate his outboard. “Wouldn’t […]

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Return of Shark the Dog Hunter

23 October 2012

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Return of Shark the Dog Hunter

A couple of days after the bulk of his crew jumped ship, Captain Dog managed to hire on some new deckhands. I’m wondering how he finds these people, because most of this new crew look just as green as the last. Some kind of temp service that specializes in matching workers to jobs that they […]

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Wherein a Captain Tries to Strangle One of His Crew

22 October 2012

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Wherein a Captain Tries to Strangle One of His Crew

He kind of deserved it. There are a couple of shark-diving boats that operate out of Cruiseport Village marina, here in Ensenada. For three months of the year, they are paid extraordinarily good money to haul insane vacationers out to popular shark haunts where they can frolic in the water amongst cute and cuddly maneaters. […]

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Navy Boats in San Diego

26 June 2012

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In Dana Point, you can’t turn around without having some, admittedly very well mannered, harbor cop crawling all up in your nethers. Again, they were hella nice, but I’m a grown up girl and comfortable with the idea of being responsible for my own actions. Tell me the rules and I’m good to go. I […]

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Getting the Shaft

4 January 2012

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Getting the Shaft

Diesels are not at all like their  gasoline brethren. A finely tuned gas-fed engine sort of purrs under its breath and hums high-pitched songs of far off places to the road beneath its wheels. A diesel is not so refined. They growl and jitter and the songs they sing are not captured by the ear […]

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San Luis ObispNO County

23 December 2011

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We’ve been gone from here for seven months. I assumed, since I am imperfect, that my perception of life on the Central Coast might be askew and that with a new perspective my opinion might change. As it turns out I was wrong in thinking that I might be wrong. (Do two wrongs make me […]

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Lumpy day today

20 October 2011

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Very very earthquakey around here today. There was a 4.2 this morning that we completely missed, we couldn’t feel it on the boat at all. This evening, however, there was another one centered near Berkely (a 3.9) that we did feel on the boat. FREAKY! No damage around the boatyard from either one.

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