If you are not planning it you are dreaming about it, the trade winds route across the Pacific. This route has captured the hearts and minds of sailors for generations. During the last few years, three to four hundred yachts make the Coconut Milk Run one of the most popular cruising seasons. On Twalzan as with many other cruisers, we had taken the month of November...
Spending most of my life in pursuit of adrenaline-filled adventure it seems ironic that I sit today in the Doldrums! Day five is a slow calm motoring event that has us playing card games, watching movies, doing the food, and clean up just the normal floating household. A great time to reflect share travel stories, finish the leftovers while dodging the rain clouds...
As infants before we can remember we smacked at the water in our tiny tubs flinging arms with little control and hearing the splashes we created. All our lives it is there from the sink faucet to the roar of the surf. Back in our bath our head down blowing bubbles and years later listening to the bubbles again only from the fall of a majestic waterfall. ...
Preparing for twenty plus night watches that are broken between the three of us is always a big concern for long passages. You can handle a few nights or maybe even a week of constant sleep interruptions but three weeks or more? Currently, I have the 3 am to 9 am as we have chosen a short-handed version of the watch schedule that includes two six hour stints one for...
We love to get some time out from the daily routine. Maybe a day at the beach, park or an exotic holiday. A weekend camping always felt as if we had escaped, enjoying simple food prep, nature walks, and quiet nights away from urban noises. I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time...