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City of Angels When we pulled into Marina Del Rey we were fired up. I had been here once at 15 years old and although I lived in Northern California for 20 years, I had only ventured south a few … Continued

Scary piece of video I have been working on the video from our two trips to Catalina island and came across a clip of my buddy Mike sitting on the bow of Happy Together in Isthmus Cove Catalina with his … Continued

Invisible Sur We motored into the harbor of Morro Bay after 10 hours of passing the most beautiful coastline on earth. We didn’t see so much as a rock! The fog blanketed the coast but the Morro Rock at the … Continued

One more time After two trips to the Bay Area we got the feeling we usually get. It’s because we are cruisers. We got antsy. We were ready to head south. Being a cruiser isn’t like buying a second home. … Continued

$7800 bucks worth of silver The America’s Cup has been in my blood since I started sailing.  I guess it’s the international competition that excites me. Rooting for my country and all. Now it’s become such a team sport that … Continued

“We Built this City” – Jefferson Starship Since I was a kid my family was connected to San Francisco. One of my first memories was standing in a building where my Dad, a young General Contractor, was remodeling the entire … Continued

Magnitude This California idea was in our head for about a year. We were still in Saint Barths dancing on tables and thinking we would see all the rest of the Caribbean and then go to Panama and then up … Continued

Hello darkness my old friend When we arrived at Gatun Lake after transiting the first set of locks we attached to the mooring ball and the advisor was taken off our boat. The crew felt great and dinner and drinks … Continued

28 Days For 20 months we have been doing this commuter cruiser thing. It works. I know it seems like a lot of travel and it is but you are going to your boat and that is never a hardship. … Continued

Goodbye Cartagena If you do the part time cruising thing like we do you sometimes enter and leave a country 2 or 3 times by plane and get pretty familiar with the place. Cartagena was like that. We ended up … Continued