Before we headed out to the Island of Santa Catalina from Long Beach we imagined ourselves harbor hopping, seeing it all in a slow circumnavigation of the island perhaps. But as Auntie Kim, Cameron’s sister, recently pointed out to us, our trip to Catalina is mirroring our “trip around the world”… we are slowpokes! We …
This month and next is all about working hard and playing hard. Last week, I arrived back home to Banyan in Long Beach after a two week trip to France and Napa. Cameron and the girls were living at a marina while I was away working. The trip to France was a research trip for a …
There is probably a lot of advice out there written to help people learn how to get safely ashore in a dinghy. Particularly on a beach with breaking waves… but neither of us had read any of it, to our detriment. Thankfully, we are all still intact physically if not quite mentally. After being happily …
It seems fitting that I should give a bit of information about communication. We receive a lot of questions on this subject from friends and family. We are about to head out of Morro Bay. It’s been absolutely lovely here. We have become fans and supporters of the local community radio station, recharged our refrigeration …
Passage SF – Monterey At 12:09pm on Monday May 4th we left. Cameron and I were pretty excited to be leaving and our adrenaline was up. A friend recently asked what it was like… It was a whole lot of things. There were lots of preparations that needed to be made before hand and there …
Life Jackets – We went to Emeryville for a few days, mainly to have a free and voluntary safety check from the US Coast Guard. The main thing that they instigated was a search for safer life jackets for the girls. The jackets that we have are legal, but for offshore we would like a …
Well, we did it! We cut the dock lines as they say in cruising circles. At 9 am on Monday morning a huge box full of donuts along with coffee and hot chocolate arrived (Thank you Sterling from the beautiful motor yacht “Molly”!), which fueled our departure. We pushed off from the dock at high …
Greetings from the Napa Valley Marina, Yes, we are still here. I’m laying on my back right now in the cockpit looking up at our new main sail mounted tidily onto our boom. It looks great. Why are we still here then? Well, the biggest reason is that we are all sick. Whatever the girls …
Moving onto Banyan has FORCED me to be a minimalist. I’ve never considered myself to be a huge consumer of stuff, but going through the process of moving onto a boat has opened my eyes! It’s really pretty amazing the amount of stuff we had… and we didn’t even have that much stuff! We had started …
We moved on board Banyan just about one week ago. It’s been a very busy time finding homes for all of our things and working on additional projects. We are happy to report that we did not grossly over estimate the amount of room we have. It’s quite the process finding just the right space …