time zones
Christiana My first memory of time zones is from 1981. I was 10yo. We lived in Bullhead City, AZ for a bit. My Dad worked for Don Laughlin (the founder of…
Lessons Learned
wrapped, 2022
“Thanks to our memories, we have what we have called experience.” Aristotle* I debated following the (trite?) tradition of summarizing the year. It glosses over so many highs and lows…
mont to morro
About two weeks ago, we did another passage. We left the 5 million barking sea lions on Monterey for the foggy Morro Bay, which is filled with adorable otters. It’s…
our first passage
In true Mark and Christiana style, our first passage involved jumping into the middle of the pool. Not wading in, not the complete deep end. But that 4.5′ zone where…
prior owners
No matter what you buy used, at some point in your ownership, you have a moment of what was the prior owner (PO) thinking? With a boat, it seems to…
what’s that smell?
Over the course of two days, we randomly smelled something. Mark finally identified it as melting plastic. We started combing through the section of the boat where the smell ever…
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,…
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…
going up + lesson learned
A sailboat neighbor, G, offered to head up the mast for us today. We don’t have a bosun’s chair (the thing the person going up sits in as they go…