Oh, the Sea of Cortez! We haven’t spent tons of time in the Sea of Cortez. In 2015 we only made it up to San Evaristo, a small bay about 1/4 of the way up the sea on the Baja peninsula. It was just after Thanksgiving, it was BLOWING a “screaming blue norther” and really …
When in Rome We are pretty conservative with our cruising kitty. Most areas of our budget are fairly fixed, but the food budget is one that we have the largest control over. To that end we figure that by eating as much like a Mexican as possible, we will not only learn a lot about …
As our water tanks are being refilled in the Santa Barbara Harbor, here is a quick update! We are leaving Santa Barbara and heading back to the Channel Islands (Santa Cruz). We’ve had a great time in Santa Barbara, enjoying Fiesta Week, seeing my cousin Anna and my Aunt Helen, and meeting up with friends …
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 …
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 …
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 …