Close to nature and at her whim
We had heard of them, people anchoring way too close, and now we’ve met one. Actually, this is the second one, but so obnoxious. that it warrants a rant. We come to this empty bay, nice and wide, large anchoring shelf of 27′. We anchor …
Most of you wonder probably how does one live on a small sailboat with a partner. And then to go cruising and to be together all day, every day. Especially on passages and at anchor the boat is all you have. You can retreat to …
I am not good at saying goodbye. I like staying. I like people. I like hanging out. So why do I choose a lifestyle where I have to say goodbye all the time? Sailors say ‘See you on the Seas’ and indeed that is supposed …
They say sailing and cruising will slow you down. So far we have been racing down Baja to La Paz to get North of the 25° latitude, because our insurance wants us there. We want to be there too because officially hurricane season has started …
Before we left San Diego for Mexico, we provisioned. Bought a lot of food, as if we wouldn’t touch land for another six months. We didn’t know what to expect and wanted to be prepared. We had been eating great fruit and vegetables imported from …
Imagine living in 250 sq feet/ meters with your husband and a dog. Imagine your closet contains 10 T-shirts, 7 shirts, 5 shorts, 5 pairs of shoes, a jewelry box the size of a large shampoo bottle. Most of your clothes are sailing and fleece …
Cabo San Lucas Skip Cabo unless you have tons of $$$, love lots of big hotels, party every day or are under 25. We heard that diesel is super expensive there and that they charge a fee just to tie up to the fuel dock. …
Once we turned the corner at Cabo San Lucas away from the mighty Pacific, which hadn’t been very gentle with us, and were 5 miles into the Sea of Cortez, it got hot. Way hot and humid. Samba started panting and we started sweating. It suddenly …
I asked Radu the night before last, if he was ready to go again. The next leg was our third 30 hour passage and the seas were big the last times making our sails exhausting. Yes, he said, he was alright and I was too, …
Ensenada Cruiseport Marina helped with the entry docs and most we already prepared in the marina office. Make sure your papers all are made out to the exact same name, a couple of Americans had to have their coast guard docks changed to match their …
Radu is learning how to filet a fish, a Pargo rojo (Pacific Red Snapper). We met Antonio, the sheriff of this small village, when he secured our dinghy on the beach the tide had broken loose and was about to float away. They started talking …
Personal hygiene on a boat can be a challenge. It’s interesting to live on the water and to have so much water around us and not to be able to use much of it. We have two water tanks of 40 gallons/ 151 liters each …
Long passages can be like endurance training. When the day is divided into either on or off watch, this feels like work. We are as far away from away from work as one can be, yet we still get used to 30 hours of either …
People have been telling us in San Diego that we would have great winds and following seas down the coast of Baja California. I was hoping we would too, but we had been so unlucky the last month with winds right on the nose or …
We were all ready to go to our next stops down the Baja, the boat was ship shape on deck and below, when Radu turned on the engine and noticed that the oil level was very low. Not sure if this was because the engine …
Today I had the last watch before arriving in Turtle Bay. We were tired when we left our last anchorage at Bahia del Rosario. We had wanted to hide out from 6/7 foot waves there and ended up anchoring in a spot, which shook Radu …
Radu woke me up 15 minutes prior to arrival. It was 7 am. After our first 21 hour passage from Ensenada to St. Quintin and going overnight, it was hard to get up. Once in the cockpit, I was awed by a different world. Round …
We left San Diego, finally, at 6 am and crossing over into Mexican waters probably around one hour and a half later. We will check into the country with all formality in Ensenada tomorrow. The last days leading up to the departure were filled with …
A while ago, back in San Diego, we had sundowners with a young couple who are renovating their powerboat in our marina. He has been fascinated with motors and is a mechanic from when he was a teenager. She defied her parents and studied marine …
These are the specs of our Imagine. May this list help you in your endeavor to outfit your boat. We bought her in November of 2014 and it took us 18 months to make her cruising ready, because of a very limited budget, a high …
The search. A very emotional process. We fell in love with our Alberg 37 the first moment we saw a picture of her on a yacht site. The decision to buy her, for more money than originally calculated, was made quickly. When I finally saw her in person in Seattle, …
Thursday 5 FEB 2015 | Boat plumbing nightmare Just ordered our Airhead composting head (toilet). I am elated. Can’t remember ever being so happy about buying a toilet. We moved on the boat a week ago and we have been using nearly only the onshore marina …
We want to imagine how the future and how we can help shape it. How will we live in 50 years? Will we have found ways to sustain our thirst for energy? Or will we have found ways to scale back? What will we drop …
