life onboard
Christiana We’ve had a few successes with living aboard lately. We had a first-ever, just-for-fun cruise on the boat. the sailing club headed to Willow Berm the weekend after Thanksgiving. Nothing…
2021
diy screens
One of the “features” of buying a 31yo sailboat is that all the portlight screens have gone somewhere, other than on the boat. We have 14 portlights aka as windows…
Trixie & Tohatsu 20
I didn’t start a post on the purchase of our dinghy. If I did, this post would have begun on July 3, 2021, and been published on October 13, 2021.…
our first storm as liveaboards
And thankfully, we’re in a marina tucked up the San Joaquin River, protected from the waves and winds in the Bay Area. Thank you, Mt. Diablo and 71nm to San…
the windlass
post began on 5 July 2021 As you may recall, we learned about the windlass–the mechanical device that pulls up, and sometimes lowers the anchor–in a hard lesson that involved…
what have we been doing?
some days–perhaps even many days of late–are one step forward and two steps back. we find the water leak that is making the water pressure pump run over time. however,…
holidays where we are
One of the things I look forward to when we start cruising around is experiencing holidays wherever. It could be a holiday that the USA doesn’t really have or just…
before and after* anchor locker
Mark’s text read: this is what delaminated plywood looks like. Reminder: the windlass died while we were struggling with air in fuel lines; it pulls the anchor up from the…
scenes from 2 June 2021
Follow-up on my previous post, I finally uploaded a couple of videos to YouTube. Check out these scenes from our Benicia to Pt Richmond motoring. The bridges here are the…
another week, another lesson, or five
I should start by saying: we’re awesome Mark has mad engine skills I remain amazingly calm during stress we work great together we’re sorry for what we said during anchoring…