Launch Day! Finally. It’s been a long time coming. In fact, my buddy Nick O’Kelly and I came up with the idea for this book one year ago this week over IHOP pancakes just steps away from the Tijuana border. Over the years we’ve been asked so many times how … Read More
Not Scrooges
Had drinks on the beach with some friends, and as we tend to do whenever somebody who actually knows how to handle a camera is around we rallied the troops for family photos. And just to show that we’re not total Scrooges, there’s a couple shots of our Christmas decorations … Read More
The Whole Family
Ouest is starting to turn into a sweet little girl. Yes, I say starting to. She’s never been much of the kissy-poo type, but the last few days she’s been handing out kisses and hugs at totally random times. Then tonight when Ali was laying her down for bed they … Read More
A Ride
Plopped the dinghy in the water for a little ride this afternoon. First time we’ve had to throw a life jacket on Lowe. He didn’t seem to mind. Even if it is Dora.
Super-Duper
Ouest has been asking for a kite forever. I’m not even sure why we haven’t gotten one sooner, but today we noticed these cheapos in some random clothing store in the mall and picked up a couple. To say that Ouest was excited just wouldn’t do the emotion justice. The … Read More
Boat Photography While Underway
Every time I post a picture like the one above I get a bunch of e-mails asking how I did it. Well I’m not a professional photographer, and my equipment is limited to a Canon t3i DSLR camera, a 15mm fisheye, an 18-270mm zoom, and a 50mm, but I do … Read More
Weird Things Happen at Sea
Weird things sometimes happen at sea. They always seem to happen at night too. Far and away our strangest encounter at sea came about three days out from the Canary Islands en route to the Caribbean. We left about two days behind the ARC fleet so didn’t expect to run … Read More
How to Write a Cruising Blog
You can’t throw a coconut in a marina these days without hitting a boat with a blog. Just insert the boat name in between www. and .com and you’ll find the website. Everyone has a blog. World cruisers, every single damn one of them blogs. Unfortunately they do not blog … Read More
Best Stops on the Milk Run
“Where was your favorite place?” Anybody who has sailed to more than three or four countries is sure to get this question over and over and over and over again. And it seems that for most of us cruisers the answer is, “Well, that depends.” And it’s true. It does … Read More
Bumfuzzle’s Cruising Buffoonery
We’ve often been accused of playing up our lack of sailing experience. People say things like, “They can’t really be that dumb.” To which we reply, “Au contraire, we most certainly can be that dumb.” And I think, really, we all can be. The difference is that I don’t mind admitting it. … Read More
Sailing’s Seriously Simple Stupid
After my post titled, Catamarans vs Monohulls, I received a lot of feedback. Most of it positive, because I am the utmost authority, and I have now handed down judgement on the subject. But one commenter to our Facebook page said that he stopped reading the article after he read, “Sailing is … Read More