We have been preparing to go cruising for 22 months – ever since we bought Eurybia after sailing south from Seattle in 2017 in Phoenix. Or for 27 months since we moved aboard full-time. Or you could say that we’ve been preparing for cruising since we came back from Hawaii in 2008 after our “shake-down” […]
Bags and Covers and Awnings, Oh My
This week I have been at my mom’s house above San Jose while Jon and Zoë are on the boat. Jon is working on antennas and bilge pumps and radios and other fun tasks; Zoë is helping I’m sure. And I am sewing bags and covers and awnings, oh my! As I glance over the […]
Doing Mexican Paperwork in Advance: Visas and the TIP
As we prepare to head to Mexico along the Pacific coast one of the issues that weighed on our minds was the process at the border. You don’t need a visa – at the border they will grant you a tourist visa good for 180 days with just your passport. However, we wanted to get […]
On the Hook at Pillar Point
After way more than a year refitting Eurybia we have finally moved on. Not far and not fast, but surely you’re expecting that by now? On Sunday Sept 1, smack dab in the middle of Labor day festivities we left our marina in San Francisco Bay at 6 am on a very foggy day. Our […]
Leaving SF Bay
We left Richmond, CA in San Francisco Bay at 600 in thick fog and arrived safely in Pillar Point on Half Moon Bay at 1315 and anchored in lovely sunlight. We were in fog the whole way down – quite scary to go under the Golden Gate Bridge seeing only an occasional glimpse of the […]
Hang up that Anchor: a DIY Fortress Anchor Mount
Many of us sailors have an auxiliary fortress anchor either as a lunch hook or stern anchor and it’s handy to mount that on the stern someplace. There are commercially available fortress anchor mounts for this purpose. They cost $50 and up. However if you also add mud palms to the anchor to make it […]
