by Allen | Jan 6, 2022 | Updates
Fan belts and Banshees That took twice the effort it should have. Our first attempt to get to Los Frailes was scuppered by a broken fan belt 4 hours into our trip. Thanks to an alarm screeching like a banshee in our earholes, we found the problem quickly enough. But,...
by Allen | Nov 23, 2021 | Updates
Winners Winners Chicken Dinners Who’d have thought it, eh? We won first prize in our class in the Baja Haha rally, despite being a week late and having motored more time than we had sailed. In a typical sailing regatta, we would have been thrown out of the...
by Allen | Nov 8, 2021 | Updates
Plan for another plan if the first plan doesn’t pan out Here’s what we read on Active Captain before deciding to head to Port San Luis: “This is wonderful anchorage…” “We spent a week here relaxing…” “…...
by Allen | Oct 6, 2021 | Updates
What rhymes with tanker? Someone needs to go back to commercial vessel driving school. As we passed underneath the Bay Bridge, a cargo ship, whose AIS vector showed that he was passing to our stern, decided he wasn’t going to pass behind us anymore. He changed...
by Allen | Oct 4, 2021 | Updates
What do you do with a month in Alameda? Install Lithium Iron Phosphate Batteries, that’s what. It took a long time to plan, but they are in, and the old lead-acid batteries are out. The previous Trojan batteries may have a good reputation, but we never liked...
by Allen | Oct 4, 2021 | Updates
It could have been worse “There is no hurricane coming, but it will be very windy in Spain.” I think Michael Fish, the weatherman, said on television before the October 1987 storm. The forecast models predicted maximum wind speeds of 22 knots approaching...
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