Well, as we expected, things did not go as expected. We were supposed to have been put in the water on April 1st, but as we ran around the decks, preparing the boat, we listened with falling hearts to the engine of the travel lift not turning over… It turns out, the starter motor died …
Tag: Casting Off
Anchors Aweigh!
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 …
Ouch!
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 …
Getting to Know You
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 …