Stay Put

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Woke up to more strong southerlies today, decided to stay put, and then watched two other boats motor out straight into it. The first was a charter boat and all I could think was that those boats must take a terrific beating being sailed by people that have no choice … Read More

Perfect Bay

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I don’t know what is going on the past couple of days, but we just can not seem to get the weather we’ve been expecting. We woke up to calm this morning, motored out in four knots, rounded the point into twelve knots, continued barreling headlong into twenty knots, and … Read More

Rolling, rolling, rolling

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That was easily our worst anchorage to date. Rolling, rolling, rolling, all night long. Sun up, flat. We left first thing in the morning with the promise of just five knots of wind on the nose. Two hours later we were plunging headlong into twenty-five knots. Not sure what the … Read More

Torry

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We got the weather this morning and it didn’t sound all that great, but it didn’t sound all that terrible either, and since we were getting antsy we took off. And for the next four hours we bungled along at ridiculously low speeds as the boat pounded and bobbed into … Read More

2nd Kid

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Lowe was working on his walking again this afternoon while the boat was a madhouse of Ali trying to cook the kids some dinner, Ouest bouncing off the walls playing something, and me just trying to reign it all in somehow. That’s when Ali said, “There it is, second kid … Read More

Supply

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Some gusty south winds kicked in today and are going to be around through tomorrow. The anchorage population went from six to twenty because of it. There are only a handful of bays with protection from the south along this stretch of coast and this is probably the best of … Read More

Fifteen Years Ago

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Fifteen years ago today Ali and I walked down the aisle. I had graduated college three months earlier and was working at Beneficial, a loan agency designed simply to make the poor even more so by wrapping up all of their 29% credit card debt into one 35% loan. Looking … Read More

Big Dinghy

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Pretty lazy days around here lately. We’ve slipped right into a routine of beach in the morning, pool and lunner in the afternoon, and store and beach again in the evening. Not a bad gig really. We thought we were out of the woods then I woke up today with … Read More

Mama’s Helper

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I took another look around today and decided that this is actually a pretty beautiful spot. If you ignore the resort in the scene the rest of the place is full of menacing looking dinosaur islands, desert somehow full of green, and the ever encroaching Sierra Gigantes. They are right … Read More

Towels!

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Yesterday we sailed an hour south to Bahia Candeleros. It’s not the most scenic bay but it is nice, the holding is shallow and sandy, it’s still close enough for us to go back if Lowe comes down with Ouest’s strep throat, and there is a brand new resort ashore … Read More

Are Blue and Pink Jobs Sexist?

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  I recently received one of those one-line un-signed Hotmail e-mails that we get ever few months. This one proceeded to call me all the -ists. I’m an elitist, a racist, and a sexist. None of which really need be addressed. My actions and my lifestyle pretty much sum up … Read More