Lyndsey and I decided to take the boat out yesterday for a little cruise. The weather was nice , the wind was blowing as the flags were flying. We invited our dog Judah, who obviously wanted to come by the way he wagged his tail back and forth when we asked him, so off we [...]
Last Night I joined a friend of mine on one of his dive boats to photograph a whale watching expedition at sunset. Approximately 20,000 gray whales pass San Diego in their 10,000 mile annual migration from the Bering Sea to Baja California this time of year.
We left at around 4pm on the boat Zero Gravity, [...]
We have been taking the boat out, checking on its performance a couple of times a week until we had our first incident. It actually wasn’t to big a problem, but it did remind us that we are operating an old vessel that will have it’s own issues. We were sailing as close as [...]
We have been going into work earlier the past couple of days, so we can get can get off early and go sailing. The waves have been flat, but the wind has been blowing. Today we sailed down wind to Coronado Bridge, and then tacked back to our marina. It was an amazing and beautiful [...]
Yesterday was the day we moved our boat to its new home. It was still at Driscoll Boat yard and we needed to sail it out of Mission bay, around Point Loma, and into it’s slip at Marina Cortez in San Diego Harbor. Everything worked fine, which was quite a relief.
The red line plots the [...]
It is hard for me to believe that ten years ago I was working on sail boats in a what use to be a small fishing village in Costa Rica. The plan at the time was to get a 6 pack captains license and work on boats for the rest of my life. Then I [...]
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