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The Full Monty – Santa Cruz Style
You know that feeling when you wake up your first morning on vacation? The bright-eyed excitement, your senses are heightened and everything is fresh and new, the light is radiant, the colors more vivid, the sounds curious and unfamiliar, and your return date as far away as it will ever be. I love that feeling. […]
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Cruising South to Santa Cruz
I awoke in the early morning fog of Half Moon Bay to the sounds of Charles installing the mainsail battens. We had gotten one of the genoa sails back on the previous evening (after some hammocking to emotionally process our monumental but successful extraction from San Francisco Bay), and getting the battens in the mainsail […]
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A Paucity of Pots as we Head to Half Moon Bay
In the San Francisco Bay boating community, ‘The Big Left Turn’ is talked about in wistful conversations about the future and for some, reminiscing about the past. In many cases, ‘the big left turn’ is synonymous with the annual cruiser migration that heads to Mexico, especially during the summer and fall. People all along the […]
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Take a Left, Just Past the Big Red Bridge
March 10, 2022 Two months in the boatyard combined with all that life continued to throw at us had taken its toll. It was the first days of August and our mast was finally going back in. We had less than two days left of our four weeks of vacation with the kids and mentally, […]
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The Boatyard; Would this be our Waterloo?
March 2, 2022 In the past, whenever I thought about us one day finally ‘casting off the dock lines’, I have to admit I had imagined it being a joyous and exuberant event. I had romanticized it, Charles and I, our hands held aloft in victory, me spinning like Mary Tyler Moore as we boldly […]