Renaming a Boat With Neptune’s Blessing

Renaming a Boat With Neptune’s Blessing

It’s quite possible that there are more nautical superstitions than there are nautical facts. With so many unknowns out on the high seas, and with so many variables that a sailor has no control over, it’s natural that we have become prone to grasping at...

A Photo Flashback of Sailing the Sea of Cortez

Our schedule up here in the wilds of Alaska doesn’t leave us near as much time as we’d like to post stories of our adventures here.  In the meantime, during this deficit of prose, enjoy some of our highlights from our season down south in the Sea of Cortez. ...

Selkie Rides Again

The new owner walked down the dock and as we came into view he threw up his arms and shouted “Selkie!” Two days of grueling travel hadn’t dampered his excitement for his new boat. Before we parted ways he handed us a beautiful, hand sewn ditty bag...

Tuck Your Pant Legs Into Your Socks, People

*Our apologies to those email subscribers who received this post prematurely a few weeks ago* Here’s a rogue’s gallery of some of the leggier, spinier, weirder and downright scarier critters that have crossed our paths in the last few months traversing the Baja...

A Matter of Perspective

*Our apologies to those email subscribers who received this post prematurely a few weeks ago* We were stuck in Puerto Escondido, waiting out yet another norther (the one that clocked in at 39 knots), and we had to fill our days with something other than slamming...

A Bad Omen: The Curse Wears Thin – Part 4

We talked to the guards at the marina. We filed a police report. We offered a reward. But still we had no hope to ever see our beloved Subaru again. Then, two days after it went missing, we got a mysterious email. The long and short of it was that a gringo had seen...