Posts Tagged with "sailboat"

IS IT WORTH IT?

Sunday, April 28, 2013

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It’s been almost a year and a half since we sailed off. In a couple weeks we will have been in Mexico most of the time for a year. Today, at anchor, I’m looking back at what we had and looking at what we have. What have we lost? The main thing that I’ve lost […]

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Can’t Tell If Anchor Dragging Or Just Weird Wind Direction…

Monday, March 11, 2013

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Can’t Tell If Anchor Dragging Or Just Weird Wind Direction…

“Tamiko,” Steve called, from out on deck, “Need you to come up and take a look at this. Tell me what you think–we’ve got a little sailboat getting…pretty damn close.” Yesterday we decamped from the La Cruz marina and found a spot in the anchorage that’s fairly close to the breakwater, which is nice because […]

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How Do You Know When You’re Ready to Go Cruising?

Sunday, October 21, 2012

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I had a lot of keys. House, deadbolt, garage, camper, racecar, shop door, shop deadbolt, shop other door, shop other deadbolt, shop 3rd door, suitcases, shop storage, shop bathroom, big tool box, side tool box, roll around tool box, race tool box, truck, Subaru, Porsche, Porsche, Porsche, wheel locks, boatyard bathroom, boatyard shower, and the […]

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Landfall To Do List

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

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We just had a great visit from my dad, Ken. We walked and pedaled his ass all around Ensenada and he enjoyed it so much that he’s considering moving down here so his money will go farther. Now it’s time to get the old boat ready for her biggest sail so far this century. Finish […]

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Failed Attempt at Point Conception

Thursday, September 6, 2012

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            We haven’t talked much about our trip around Point Conception or our first failed attempt. We left Morro Bay for Port San Luis Obispo and had a fairly nice sail down. We arrived at night, as usual, but were able to navigate through the mooring fields and find the […]

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Water Versus Diesel

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

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On either side of our boat, embedded into the deck, there are two deck fills about two feet apart. The forward pair has the word WATER cast into the bronze, the aft pair DEISEL. I know I misspelled that. The boat was made in Taiwan and the word, cast into thousands of deck fills, was […]

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Big Eyes

Saturday, July 30, 2011

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Big Eyes

Okay…I guess they’re not really Big Eyes, but our new BARSKA Gladiator binoculars did a pretty bang up job of revealing last night’s moon, in all its pockmarked glory. We’ve been planning on replacing our binoculars later, rather than sooner. Our first pair is, admittedly, more than a little worse for the wear. Even so, […]

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