S.V. MACH 5 & the Coleman Land Yacht

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  • what’s been going on?

    a lot. the end. Just kidding! It has been a busy, productive April, May, June, July, and August. MACH 5 looks like a cruising boat now! Mark and me (Christiana) are pooped! We had…

  • a greenhorn, that’s me!

    Hardly anything on the haul-out to-do list was a task that I (Christiana) could do on my own. I still feel overwhelmed (and over-helmed) when sailing MACH 5. I’m unskilled labor. I’m a greenhorn.…

  • the beginning of cruising life

    On May 24, after 41 days on the hard, MACH 5 and her people splashed back into the water! It was wonderful. Nothing leaked immediately (or in the days since). Mark’s diligent work to…

  • 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 happen almost daily. One…

  • life on the hard

    SV Mach 5 and her people are doing hard time. We motored to Napa Valley Marina over two days. It was cold, windy–sometimes wet. We had new experiences including the first time ever being…

  • what have we been doing?

    It’s been two months since I last posted. We had a much-needed and super fun break by housesitting for Jason and Rachel. They live near Paso Robles on a 40ish acre olive tree farm–and…

  • 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 so gently tickled our…

  • it’s been two weeks

    Two weeks ago, I exited a job I mostly enjoyed for 14 years. This is officially the longest time that I’ve been unemployed since age 16–34 years of grinding away. Sometimes at ‘just a…

  • alt2luv

    I’ve been feeling OG alternative music of late so I made a playlist.

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