Archive | October, 2011

Electricity!

29 October 2011

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We finally got our solar panels installed last week and they rock the house! Well the house battery bank anyway. The funny part is that it was just in time but we didn’t know that. Unbeknownst to us we had been stealing our electricity from the City of Alameda previously. The only electricity available on […]

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It Was Great!

28 October 2011

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Our first sail really couldn’t have gone better. We sailed from Alameda past Treasure Island, past Angel Island Tiburon, and Paradise Cay and up towards San Rafael. We experienced winds from 0 to 18 knots and some pretty gnarly currents. On the way back south towards Alameda, we were pushed close to Angel Island and […]

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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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Racial Diversity

25 October 2011

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One of the things that I most enjoy about the San Francisco Bay area is the racial diversity. You can see people, dress, and food from every corner of the world in nearly any community around here and it’s quite a contrast from the White-Bud-Drinking-Redneck-in-a Ford-F-250-4X4 that is so ubiquitous here around San Luis Obispo […]

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Chinatown Characters

23 October 2011

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Driving through Chinatown the other day, we saw an old, old Chinese dude walking along proudly sporting a nice cowboy hat. I think his name was Yee Ha.

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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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Almost Done

18 October 2011

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After many many delays and much more time and expense than we ever expected, we’re almost done here. It will be good to leave the Bay Area and get to someplace warm and affordable. We should be in Morro Bay within 2 weeks. Clearly Morro Bay is neither warm or affordable but it’s on the […]

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