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This is the kids playing with the new refrigerator. They like this one way better than the old one. It comes complete with ice cubes. Since we’ve only got a week left on the boat before traipsing off for the summer we figured we’d just go this route instead of … Read More

A couple weeks back Ali thought it would be funny to teach Ouest my name. I think because it is so close to Papa she really took a shine to it. She now splits it about fifty-fifty with Papa. “Hey Ouest, it’s time to eat.” “Why Pot?” Or, “Ouest, I … Read More

We’re back in the swing of things around here. What that means is we do about an hour worth of boat projects per day and spend the rest of the time wrangling kids, swimming, eating, playing, napping, doing laundry, and everything else that goes with it. The boat projects at … Read More

I don’t know why it feels like we’ve been away for so long as it has only been a couple of months, but we are both happy to be back here and taking it easy with a few luxuries like swimming pools and grocery stores at our fingertips. It makes … Read More

It’s been a year today since Ali and I entered Mexico this time around. Her coming in almost eight months pregnant with Ouest in hand, and me sailing down the coast of Baja. I read a blog posting by some South Pacific cruisers the other day that talked about how … Read More

Every time we think we’ve had our worst night ever we top it soon after. Last night started off badly enough with the huge swell rolling us all over the place. Then came darkness and lightning all around. We’d barely gotten to sleep when things got out of hand. A … Read More

Today consisted mainly in getting ready to leave. We needed to clean up our mess on the dock since if you didn’t know we had two kids you would have assumed we needed one of those Hoarder’s interventions. Straighten up the lines, fill the water tanks, give the boat one … Read More

Ali hauled me up the mast today so we could officially mark the boat list as done. I had the lazy jack lines all made up but still needed to go up and attach a couple of blocks for them to run through. With that done dousing the main should … Read More

I went in the water today with four-pound mallet in hand. And I let that shaft have it. And when I was spent I crawled up onto the dock, spent ten minutes under the hose, and went inside to have a look, sure that it hadn’t moved. But it had, … Read More

The last thing we’re waiting on before leaving here is also the last thing I expected that we’d have to wait on, a diver. Unfortunately the water is so disgusting lately that there is zero visibility and even these local divers who go into this nasty water day after day … Read More