LandfallVoyages

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]