Ouest and Lowe, I can no longer keep up. You two have buried me and we’re only just getting started. Lowe, you are growing uncontollably. You’re a big boy, strong as an ox and bored as can be. I promise to buy you some standing and walking toys as soon … Read More
Laundry and Garbage
I dove in today with scrapers in hand and found that it was amazing this boat moved at all when we left Barra. The bottom was a giant mass of growth. Hundreds of pounds of fist sized plants, quite beautiful actually, had attached themselves to our fifteen or so year-old … Read More
Tenacatita
Busy mornings filled with kids’ breakfast, play, and Lowe’s sporadic naps. Afternoons spent on the beach and in the restaurant. Nights playing on deck as the sun slips underneath the hills, one last kids’ meal, and bedtime stories. Today we hung out with friends we last saw in San Francisco. … Read More
Spindrift Cost
What will our second sailing adventure cost? Hopefully a lot less than our first. We’re starting out this time in a much different frame of mind and with a much different type of boat. We bought our Spindrift for a little less than half of what other Spindrifts were on the … Read More
A Challenge, But Good Too
This is why everyone cruising in Mexico has a dinghy with wheels. That’s two hundred and some odd pounds of dinghy there. No problem for Ali and I back in the day, but the four extra legs and feet aren’t really helping much right now. Life aboard is a bit … Read More
Beach Break
So I isolated the starter battery today and went to fire up the engine. Nothing. That battery, despite reading 12.2v couldn’t even begin to turn the engine over. Normally this would be evident easily enough because the starter battery and the house batteries should be isolated from each other, joined … Read More
Moving On
We motored out of Barra this morning in calm water and hot still air. It’s only a thirteen mile jaunt around the corner to Tenacatita so it should have been simple enough, but halfway I realized that the batteries weren’t charging. Scratch that, they were charging, but slowly. And while … Read More
Middle-Aged
Average life expectancy in Mexico is seventy-six years old. Meaning that I am officially middle-aged. It’s seventy-eight in the States so I’m thinking of moving back there for another year. This morning when Ouest woke up, Ali went in to her room and told her it was my birthday. I … Read More