As I sit down to write this, Adelaide rummages around and looks for the journal in which she is writing her great American novel, Isa is peeling onion skins to make calligraphy ink and Cameron is single mind-idly running through the boat, multimeter in hand checking outlets. Banyan is currently tied to the dock, a …
January was our last month in North America and saw our arrival in New Zealand. There was a little running around with a business meeting in Texas, wine work in California, and I was able to squeeze in one last visit with Oma. This was especially precious for me. At the age of 101, Oma …
They say cruising is merely boat maintenance in exotic locations. There is definitely some truth to that. I’ve wallowed away many a beautiful evening at anchorage contorted into an advanced level yoga pose to reach the back of a loose connection. The girls are now helping with this as well, while I become less pliable …
I LOVE spending the holidays with family and friends and we have been so fortunate this year to have been able to spend so much time with both. The girls had lots of fun with their “old” friends and spent a good amount of time with their cousins as well! We finished out 2019 with …
Turns out all of our solar panels are blown, the charger needed replacing (or did it...), our engine starter battery is done, the dinghy is in need of some patching and there are about 50 other little things that need doing .
We were recently honored to be interviewed by Benjamin Shaw of Out the Gate Sailing. Ben has a great podcast about sailing on the bay that we’ve listened to for a while. He interviews all sorts of people who have connections to San Francisco Bay sailing. We had a lovely sit down with him at …
Back in November of 2018 when we were pulling into New Zealand after an amazing six months exploring Oceana, Cameron and I were called back to Canada to a client. We didn’t know when that work would wrap up. We also knew that we wanted to be in France for the D-Day celebrations with our …
October was filled to the brim. We got lots of horse riding into the books, wine harvesting, fun with friends and family and the girls created and delivered a presentation about their lives as boat kids to a bunch of 5th-grade classes. We were also able to help evacuate the horses when the Kincade …
I am very excited to have finally published our “Hacks” page. This has been in the works for a while and I’ve been slowly chipping away at it. I hope that it is very useful for soon-to-be cruisers and long term travelers. The idea is that it is a little corner of the website where …
Getting back into land life has involved some challenges and also some really lovely benefits. We’ve been enjoying the ability to reconnect with friends, to ride horses and to get some work done.