On Friday the 13th in 2009 we signed the paperwork and bought a beautiful new (to us) sailboat henceforth to be called, S/V ITINERANT! …Once again, at sea at last![…]
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What you gonna do with…
This was my Journal page on the S/V Sapien site… The above shot was taken one day south of the Tropic of Cancer in Novenber of 2006 on the way[…]
Read moreThe Ocean Blues Again…
The Sailing Vessel Sapien and her crew of two set out once again on the Ocean Blue. At 1600 hours on Friday the 13th day of April in the year[…]
Read moreAccidentally Vacationing in Kona
Hawaii has not turned out to be the job mecca we were expecting. I knew that Hilo was a depressed area because it had depended on the plantations. Kona, though,[…]
Read moreThe Trip…
“The hour is 10 PM, the frequency is 89.1 FM, the station broadcasting this signal is called FUCC, and you are hearing the magic of the electronically transmitted human condition.[…]
Read more20 days of Pacific or rather, Just Go!
Just… Go! I can see no reason not to just go… So on the 17th of October in the year of 2006 we just went. The boat, the sailing vessel[…]
Read moreSo we wrote a letter…
to the editor of Latitude 38 and the people of the San Francisco Bay Area sailing community. Here’s how it went: Ahoy! We’re sailing off into the sunset. We arrived[…]
Read moreOr Rather, the story…
At the beginning of his book “The Long Way” Moitessier says that it’s bad luck for a sailor to get underway for an adventure on a Friday… So in my[…]
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