the beginning of cruising life
Christiana 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).…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
alt2luv
I’ve been feeling OG alternative music of late so I made a playlist.
life onboard
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…
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.…