After arriving in Santa Maria Bay after a terrible passage, we were soaked after two nights of taking waves in the face and exhausted after no sleep. We had a lay day so Liz tidied up a bit while I… Continue reading
As mentioned in the previous post, arrival into Mexico was pretty easy, although involving a fairly long cold foggy motor. With clearing into Mexico out the way it was time to head on south down the baja california! First stop… Continue reading
Two posts in one day?! Wowsers! (I’m catching up before heading off to turtle bay where the connection is spotty) After finally managing to leave San Diego, we actually had a pretty wonderful sail down with 5 knots of wind on… Continue reading
I had a few frantic days running around San Diego during which I bought a lot of stuff, including Custom Fabricated pieces Massive shoutout to Thomas Marine who not only managed to do the bits in a ridiculously short timeframe, but also… Continue reading
So Catalina Harbour was really nice and sooooo clear – I decided yet again to try to catch a Halibut, and had a strong hit, which turned out to be… a shovelnosed guitarfish. Yet another member of the ray family.… Continue reading
Since returning from the Vancouver Island trip, I’ve been pretty low energy, concentrating on keeping my expenses down (I’ve ditched the car! RIP Lola, you will be remembered), eating healthily and resisting the temptation just to eat ice cream and… Continue reading
While at Forward Harbour I switched out the raw water impeller, tightened the alternator belt and cleaned the raw water filter in an attempt to fix the mysterious exhaust smoke. One of these things (probably tightening the belt) seems to… Continue reading
On the weekend I went out fishing, as I just had got a brand new downrigger! Meaning I had two downriggers, and so could run two lines deep. In the winter the only type of salmon around are Chinook, as… Continue reading