Close to nature and at her whim
San Diego is playing Miami today. Humidity is through the roof. It’s smoldering hot. I am sweating. Moving just a little bit feels like running a sprint. Even my brain is lazy and I can only come up with some lame 80’s song for a …
In 2020 regulations dictate in Washington State and California that the hull paint on pleasure vessels should be of the non-copper kind and/or have a very slow leaching rate. Thousand of pleasure boats are mostly sitting at the docks and are continually leaching copper into …
It took us months but there she is in all her restored glory ready for new adventures. Completed as hull #54 on the 7th of March 1969, our Imagine turned 50 this year. Radu discovered on the day that this hull ID number is actually …
Sails we carry on our Alberg 37. Our #1 Genoa is our hardest working sail, it’s on the furler, easy to handle, very big and at 135% it goes 3 feet past the mast. We often reach 8-9 knots only with this headsail and without …
Bamboo is one of the most sustainable source of fiber made into fabrics to date. This is the one product you want to buy from China, as bamboo originates there. It grows very fast, vertically, is easy to harvest and has a immense crop yield …
Since this night I can attest to, that the most important crew on board is the bilge pump. We are motoring, because there is absolutely no wind, unfortunately, because a little while back a seam in our engines muffler box gave out and seawater is …
May 15th, 2016. Today we cast off from Shelter Island Marina/San Diego at 0600 hours. Our destination …Ensenada Mexico. It’s been a year and a half of hard work, learning, good days and bad. We were fortunate to meet good people to help us along …
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 …