I arrived back from Canada rejuvenated and raring-to-go. I was ready to conquer my now-quelled fears and get this next leg underway. What a difference my trip home had made, my uneasiness was gone and had taken with it the giant clouds of doubt and turmoil that had hung over me for so long. I […]

Gah! The day had arrived. I was flying home to Canada, talk about your bitter-sweet moments. On the one hand, I was very excited to be seeing family and friends and very thankful to be going home for a birthday instead of a less joyous occasion. I hadn’t been back to Vancouver or Victoria in […]

When we last looked in on our intrepid duo they had found themselves in a bit of a pickle. Unseen forces had them trapped, tethered inexplicably to the murky depths of Monterey Bay. With their plan to head in to the fuel dock now in jeopardy, the crew knew they needed a miracle, but would […]

The day was finally here! I had been imagining this moment for a long time, a micro-dream within our big over-arching plans. Today, after countless hours of figuring and scheming we would be realizing that small dream, we would be crossing Monterey Bay on our own boat! This day, this moment, had been a slowly […]

With the birthday festivities successfully behind us it was time to think about moving on to our next destination, just a hop, skip, and a jump towards the east, the quaint and very picturesque town of Capitola. We did a quick provision, hit the thrift shop to get Charles some cooling shirts and jeans, and […]

How has it only been a week? What a whirlwind. Our first week out of the boatyard, and out of The Bay, was a doozey. Charles and I were in desperate need of some downtime before the upcoming weekend when we would be hosting a trio of teens and tweens and we very much needed […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]