Well the family on SV Banyan has been out of cell service and internet range for a while. I’m getting a little bit twitchy! Since we last did an update on our adventure we have moved north. We took off from Cabo San Lucas on the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula. We curled around …
We made it! This is the view this morning. We pulled into the anchorage in the harbor of Cabo San Lucas about 12pm last night. I will be working up a full report as well as a short video of our adventure down the Pacific coast of the Baja peninsula with the BajaHaHa over …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
They say that cruising is boat maintenance in exotic locations. Maintenance is just life when you own a BOAT (Break Out Another Thousand). Others will tell you “Oh yea, that hole in the water that I throw money into?” Then there is the one about boat ownership being like standing in a cold shower, fully …
Update: Our Boat is on the hard these days at the Napa Valley Marina. We had some work to do which was better done on land so out it came. Now, we’re taking it apart in all directions and I look forward to the day it is put back together! We had some dry rot …