My First

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I’m not sure what sparked it but I thought today of the first time I ever went to sea. The details are a bit sketchy as I haven’t taken the time to ask Mom to fill me in, but I remember most of it. I was maybe seven years old … Read More

Dockside

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Back in La Paz a month after we left. Ali says it felt like longer, which I can’t necessarily take as a good thing. It’s fair to say that we’re both looking forward to next season with Lowe a little older. All the naps, and the crawling, make for some … Read More

Balandra!

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We motored into the wind for a while this morning before all at once there was none. Thirty miles later we dropped the anchor in Puerto Balandra just a few miles north of La Paz. We were quite excited about this anchorage as it meant we wouldn’t be eating on … Read More

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