This is what taking your garbage out looks like
If you have romantic visions of what it’s like to live on a sailboat, we aim to paint you a more realistic portrait. Daily life can be pretty awesome, but […]
Passage notes: El Granada to Santa Cruz
Cloud formation off of Monterey Bay. Log Book Port of departure: Pillar Point Harbor (El Granada, CA) Departure date and time: 7:30am on Sunday, November 11 Port of arrival: Santa […]
Passage notes: San Francisco to El Granada
Pillar Point to the left. I love the hills overlooking this harbor, they remind me of Eastern Washington with all of the seams and creases. Very sensuous landscape if you […]
Winter is coming
Cold weather has been chasing us for two months, lapping at our transom, and it’s beginning to catch up. Last night the temperature fell to the low fifties. For the […]
Angel Island State Park
Now that the repair is behind us we’ve been spending some time exploring the bay and plotting our next steps. The winter storm Brutus is just now hitting the west […]
Sharing the road
This is a light to moderate day of traffic on the Bay. The weekends are crazy, and the big ships can come at any time. There are people on the […]
Pride of ownership
We’ve had a lot of people come by Serenity while she hangs above the Berkeley waterfront, waiting for Monday morning to splash her again with her beautiful new old rudder. […]
Rudder repair
Before you begin reading, be warned that this post is more oriented towards boat nerds who are curious about how we took our rudder apart and put it back together. […]
The approach
We got lucky. It turns out that Serenity chose to fall apart in the very best place on the Bay, where transient moorage is cheap and there’s a DIY boatyard […]
October 2012: month in review
The San Francisco skyline. It feels like October was four very different months packed into one. A quarter of the time we travelled, day in and day out, eager to […]