I spent 10 days in Panama City waiting for my slot. The anchorage was pretty rolly but I got a lot of stuff done, including replacing the windlass gypsy (Lewmar has maybe some of the best support I’ve seen from… Continue reading
Once I had escaped Costa Rica (relatively) unscathed, the next thing was to reach the canal. I hadn’t really looked into it too much and naively assumed that the canal would be the hard part, turns out getting there is… Continue reading
After almost a week in Eureka. it was time to head out. Holley (my old boat neighbour captaining Maquinna Pt) had finished replacing her transmission so we were going to buddy boat – nothing quite as fun as sailing with… Continue reading
I wasn’t going to make this it’s own post but so much happened in the following passage (foreshadowing!) that I decided to separate out my stay. Basically we were there for a week, and although the town itself has seen… Continue reading
So before I wrote this I reread my entries from last time, when I hopped from Neah Bay to Astoria, Astoria to Coos Bay and then Coos to Eureka. It is pretty amazing how bad a time I was having,… Continue reading
So it’s been a hot minute since I’ve written anything, and the main reason for that is that I decided to try to sail across the Pacific again because of the previous point, I had to do the stuff I… Continue reading
Last year, on the free table at my marina I found the following ‘But Matthew’, I hear you say, ‘That is literally a pile of dirty trash’ And I would say – actually, that’s the best find I have ever… Continue reading
Sooners old breaker panel for the DC was old and not actually wired up to anything (the fridge etc was all wired directly to the batteries) so after removing the old one the first thing to do was figure out… Continue reading