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Mexican Emergency Room Madness, aka Part 2
Aaaannnnndd, we’re back. Apologies for the delay on Part the Second, but getting over one of these spasm attacks is rough. It feels like a Kenworth has been using my left side as a parking lot for the last week or so. Now where were we? Oh yes…in the taxi, on the way to the […]
Continue reading...And There We Were in a Mexican Emergency Room: Part 1
18 September 2012
The teak deck is damp and gritty against my face. The stars above are far away and beautiful. The sound of phaser fire drifts up from the cabin below and I try to imagine I am on the bridge of Enterprise, in the Star Trek episode we’d been watching, and not pinned to the deck […]
Continue reading...It Always Happens in the Middle of the Night…
8 September 2012
Or 2:30 in the morning, to be more exact. I was deep under –we’re talking dead, asleep drooling on the pillow– when Steve crawled over me, opened the head door and stood there for a minute. “Why is that pump running”? he asked. There’s no sleeping through a question like that. Unless you want to […]
Continue reading...Failed Attempt at Point Conception
6 September 2012
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 […]
Continue reading...Shit Tank Shenanigans
12 January 2012
When you tell someone that you’re sailing around the world, the picture that pops up in their heads is invariably a lot more glamorous than the down and dirty, day-in-and-day-out reality proves to be. And by down and dirty I mean that sooner or later you’re gonna be crunched up like a contortionist, playing hide […]
Continue reading...Getting the Shaft
4 January 2012
Diesels are not at all like their gasoline brethren. A finely tuned gas-fed engine sort of purrs under its breath and hums high-pitched songs of far off places to the road beneath its wheels. A diesel is not so refined. They growl and jitter and the songs they sing are not captured by the ear […]
Continue reading...I swear, we didn’t sail off the edge of the Earth
22 December 2011
It would appear we’ve been somewhat remiss in updating–rest assured, we did not fall victim to West Coast pirates; we did not take an unscheduled tour of Davy Jones’ locker; and we have not been press ganged into a century-long stint before the mast on board the Flying Dutchman. It’s been just completely, utterly, hella […]
Continue reading...Santa Cruz
29 November 2011
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 […]
Continue reading...Failing Machines
12 November 2011
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 […]
Continue reading...Hanging out
4 September 2011
We have the mast down, we took it down last Tuesday and we have an appointment to have it re-stepped this Tuesday. Almost everything that could be wrong with the hardware, electrical, or running rigging was wrong. We’ve had a hard week getting everything prepared but we’re almost done with this stage and tomorrow shouldn’t […]
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