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 …
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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 …
Becoming a Minimalist
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 …
Parties and Partings
FAQ #1: “When are you leaving?” Answer: “I’m not telling you” The short answer is that we are moving onto the boat at the end of February and then… we will see which way the wind is blowing before heading down to Mexico via a slow tour of the California Coast. We felt so …
THE HISTORY – Part III
The following is a fairly concise version of the last 10 years of our lives. We did a lot of preparation for our journey to come, even while daily life went along with all the normal activities, challenges and joys, there were many small and large sacrifices that were made. At times it seemed like …
THE HISTORY – Part II
Cameron and I met in our very first class (Viticulture 101) at UC Davis as transfer students into the Viticulture and Enology Program in the fall of 1999. In late 2000 we started dating and I got to know him, his history and his dreams a bit more. Traditionally, I’m a land locked lady. I …
THE HISTORY – Part I … How did it come to this!
When I was just starting to date my now husband at UC Davis, I had a feeling that he had a passion for sailing. I had no idea how far that passion would end up taking us. Cameron spent a good bit of time in Australia near Sydney during his formative years. He grew up …