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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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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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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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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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First Night

11 September 2011

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We slept aboard last night, the first time since right after Eli got the tracheostomy about 12 1/2 years ago. It was the first good night’s sleep that I’ve had in many years. You just can’t sleep like this anywhere else. This boat has the most seakindly motion and in fact it’s even nicer on […]

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Hanging out

4 September 2011

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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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Sorry

8 July 2011

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We’re sorry it’s been so long since our last update. We’ve moved up to the boatyard and we’ve been busting our butts to get this boat in the water. We just established internet access so there will be more tonight. Thanks friends! Steve

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