Until late September, we didn’t have much clarity about the general trajectory of the first few months of our adventure. Our master-sketch of our trip looked somewhat like a spiderweb across the Pacific, a choose-your-own adventure of possibilities that in some final form might resemble a clockwise loop.…

We’ll always remember the three happy weeks we spent between Santa Barbara and the Channel Islands as The Mariners Post Season. We’re fair weather baseball fans at best, but watched every game of the 2025 ALDS and ALCS from loud sports bars, quiet one-boat anchorages and, at least…

I appreciate a little subjectivity in cruising guidebooks, so I love the Dreamspeaker series which includes hand-drawn charts of most of the anchorages in the Salish Sea with notes on where to find rope swings and blackberry bushes. Now that we’re outside Dreamspeaker territory, I find myself Googling…

Returning from the comforts of Philadelphia to our boat in Monterey was a little deflating — and not just because we’d accidentally left some Brie out on the counter for a week. Maybe that explains our sense of urgency to get off the dock and on our way…

The West Coast of the US is peppered with family. Of course we knew this when we departed Seattle, but it has been such an unexpected joy to reconnect with them in the midst of this adventure. And our arrival in Monterey was no exception – my cousin,…

Cruising is often described as ‘fixing your boat in nice places’ and on Flyer I like to live that adage every day. In San Francisco, our urgent project was to install an improved seawater pressurization line to our shaft seal, to prevent our engine flooding with seawater again…