Wharf Rats
Keeping with the Grateful Dead song titles while we’re in San Fran (which we learned no local would ever call this city), we have certainly been wharf dwellers this last week. We haven’t seen any rats here at Emery Cove but there are cute and friendly California ground squirrels around. The squirrel families are so […]
Broke Down Palace?
Well, not exactly broke down but that’s the best Dead song to title our visit to San Francisco. We sailed southeast for about 24 hours back towards the coast without much energy or thoughts towards what the problem might be, at least on my part. At sea the basic necessities are really all I can […]
Southward!
We pushed off from Port Townsend on Tuesday at about 10am a week ago. Paul decided he needed to stay to work with the foiling ferry design but the awesome Gavin Brackett slipped into his spot with all the experience and brilliant attitude anyone could have to go on adventure like this. Our delivery team […]
Departure
We cast off from Shilshole at about 3pm today after checking off the last things from the to-do list. The boat is tidy, produce is fresh, holding tank is empty, and the fridge and freezer are packed to the gils. Griffin got to visit with his cousins Allie and Tessa, Greg had butterflies and felt […]
Eventful Events and WAITING
This has been a hell of a time. We put the boat back in the water the day before my sailing hero, life mentor, and just to get to the point, my dad, passed away 4/24. He was one of the really good ones. A few days later my sister organized an amazing and thoughtful […]
Imminent Departure
Have we mentioned here that we’ve had this dream goal of taking a sabbatical year and sailing the South Pacific Ocean? Rocket Science was designed with that trip in mind and we’ve been planning it for Griffin’s 7th grade year. It all made perfect sense until a few months ago when the time to leave […]
2025! Labor Done (for the moment)
Happy 2025 everyone! We just barely got things back together in time to get off the dock before 2024 ended and 2025 began. Our Taco Tuesday Yacht Club had its annual raft up over in Blakely Harbor and we scrambled to get the boat back together enough to get over there. Seems like the hardest […]
Labor Day in Poulsbo- Labor Ahead!
We were excited to get to meet up with friends in Poulsbo for a relaxing long weekend on the hook. Even better was by the time we got going on Saturday there was a lovely breeze and we had a great sail across the sound. I finally dropped a video onto our site, wow! Now […]
Summer Cruise 2024
The departure date for our annual four week trip to Desolation Sound was coming up fast and we, but more importantly, the boat, was not ready. As in, really really not ready. The boom was not attached to the boat, the main and jib were at the sail loft, the inside was more taken apart […]
Summer Cruise 2023
July 29th we cast off from our slip at Shilshole at 5am, mom and dad stayed cozy in the bow but Griffin got up soon after the engine started. The prior afternoon mom and dad beat us to the boat so they helped us load the last few precious things such as our two cats […]