Archive | May, 2011

The Looks on People’s Faces

29 May 2011

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A lot of people dream about buying a boat and sailing away. A few of them buy some books and magazines and a few of them travel to places where there are boats to see and they dream there for awhile and then have fish for lunch. A very few of them will look at […]

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The 8th Street Cafe

27 May 2011

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Happy hour comes twice a day at the 8th Street Cafe in Oakland’s Chinatown. There’s an almost cafeteria-like feel to the place, with its nondescript booths and industrial linoleum. The walls are plastered with a hodgepodge mixture that is one part pictures of food, to two parts hand-lettered specials. In Chinese. Because why not? Where […]

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Before & after

24 May 2011

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This was a lot of work and it was worth it as you can see. Now that the bilge is white, we can actually see in here. The trusty old Perkins diesel is almost ready to bolt in to its new and improved home.

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Work so I can go work

17 May 2011

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After working all last week and all weekend, we’re finally preparing to go to the boat so we can, you guessed it! Work. If you want to do something big like a circumnavigation you’ll need to work pretty hard at some point. Sailing around the world is harder than something like watching TV and ordering […]

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Tri-Tip

10 May 2011

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Tri-tip may be the most wonderful food on the planet. Tri-tip is the very end of the beef sirloin. It isn’t the nice big tender end, it’s the small, tough end. It was cheap once but now it’s popular and expensive. It looks like a 5 pound triangular roast with a thick slab of fat […]

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From Humble Beginnings

6 May 2011

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This is the story of my family’s long nautical tradition. When I was small, in the 60’s, my family made a trip to the Salton Sea. My dad was a bit of a partier and his boat was a classic P.O.S. It was a 16′ flat-bottomed lake boat with a big V-8 and a direct […]

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