Remember Kevin from our detour to Newport, OR? We met him on the dock and bonded over being towed in by the Coast Guard after engine trouble. He came aboard to survey our engine and exhaust configuration and helped Steve crack the code. We had a feeling he…

This was James and Paul’s first trip to San Francisco and they arrived by sailboat under the Golden Gate Bridge with family waving to them from shore. In keeping with the non-traditional entrance, we did not see the typical tourist sights. We didn’t visit Alcatraz, Coit Tower, or…

Time feels a little more elastic on the boat, especially during overnight passages when we sleep in our clothes and eat a breakfast of peanut M&Ms at 3am. We keep an eye on the clock because of the watch system and our hourly log entries, but I’m constantly…

After our 48 hour stopover in Newport were eager to bang out the final 500 nautical miles to San Francisco Bay. We departed mid-day on 30 August after meeting our good friends from Portland on the dock, oil filters in hand! The long and narrow channel leading out…

Our unplanned pit-stop in Newport Oregon brought us some great surprises. A visit to the Newport Aquarium (awesome!), a killer meal at the Rogue Brewery (but don’t order the oyster shooters), and new friendships on either side of the dock, including two vessels who found themselves in similar…

For our first offshore leg from Friday Harbor to San Francisco we had set an ideal departure time of the 23rd to the 28th of August. As that timing neared, the weather was looking good for a possible departure around the 25th. By many measures this trip down…