Champagne, Mud pits, and Passersby
Sailing has so many forms. We were so lucky for the first leg of our journey to San Fransisco to have the nicest sailing conditions we could have hoped for. The crew has repeated back and forth to each other “champagne sailing, champagne”. Incredibly, since we left SF it’s been mostly the same except some of […]
Night Watch
Turns out I like to write when it’s quieter and dark and I’m alone. Tonight/this morning is different, the clouds are lower and moving so fast that it’s harder to use any brighter spots in the sky as points of reference for steering. Right now I can see one planet or star off to port […]
Oceanic
The moon is shining behind the glowing clouds and it’s not too dark out. Where the layers are thinner the light splotches are reflected on the ocean all around us. They look like little private parties- some we are dashing towards, others we run from, and others we just nod too as they brighten and […]
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 […]