Archive | November, 2011

Santa Cruz

29 November 2011

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We left Half Moon Bay after a couple of days to recover. The weather looked OK. Not good, just OK but we’ve been feeling some urgency to get souther before winter fully sets in. Out of Half Moon Bay we again had the wind and the swells behind us but the waves were very close […]

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RADAR!

29 November 2011

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After 20 trips up the mast (+-?) we’ve finally fixed the radar. Thanks go out to Johnson Hicks Marine Electronics in Santa Cruz for their help and advice in spite of the fact that they weren’t making much money on us. This is a big deal. Huge.

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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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Failing Machines

12 November 2011

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Sewing machine died a couple of days ago, I sent it overboard. They don’t float. It was brand new. Inverter died yesterday. I bought it used, no warranty. My last cordless drill battery died today, now I have to wait until after dark to drill holes when the City of Alameda’s light poles energize, we […]

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Almost Ready

8 November 2011

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We have about 2-3 days work left to get ready to go and the weather looks good for Sunday-Wednesday at least, that’s as far out as the forecast goes. Barring any unforeseen difficulties we’re outta here early Sunday morning and we’ll pull into Morro Bay for a day or two Monday night or so. If […]

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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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