Shoot

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I took the kids out for a dinghy ride around the bay this afternoon. We hadn’t been toddling along for more than five minutes before Ouest announced with some urgency, “I have to poop.” I raced back to the boat, threw her up on deck, and she stomped downstairs to … Read More

Dipping the Bowsprit

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I don’t know what happens some nights. We spent the day in water so calm we could clearly see the bottom at twenty-five feet. I went to bed at ten and only a slight breeze rippled the water. And by 11:30 the bowsprit was dipping into the waves as we … Read More

Fish Tacos?

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Today was one of our beach days. Nothing was done all day other than playing on the beach and in the water. In the water takes on a whole new meaning in this strange bay. From our boat it is a hundred yards or so to water that is just … Read More

Puerto Balandra

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This morning we took off early, but still behind three other boats, headed north. Weather was predicted to be nothing. And since the channel we’d be going through is known to be an occasional boat buster with strong currents, funneling winds, and steep seas, we were as eager as the … Read More

Bay of **Dreams**

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A day in Bahia de los Muertos (Bay of the Dead), or as the real-estate developers like to call it instead, the Bay of Dreams. Lame, right?

Crossing the Sea of Cortez

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An uneventful night, which for us is always a good thing. Calm seas, no wind, and the kids slept all night. The only boat problem was the navigation lights crapping out on us after about three hours of use. I’m going to have to rewire all of those from start … Read More

Motor On

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Back on the water today. We slipped the lines early this morning and left at low tide to sneak out through the narrow breakwater and back out to open ocean. There has been about two weeks of unusually windy, cool weather so when a few days of calms—or at least … Read More

Floating Home

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Seems a little strange to be heading out to cross the Sea at the same time a hurricane is whipping things around down in Acapulco. But we set out this morning nonetheless. Spent the day motoring in either very light winds or moderately strong winds right on the nose. This … 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