It's always a little impactful to be offshore, but especially so in the powerful places of the ocean, like around Point Arguello. Even on a calm day, to be here is awe inspiring. If you've ever seen a clear night sky and looked in amazement at how vast an ...
I've refit a Catalina 30, and now have a J-133 that we live aboard, and this book is the the common link. I keep it on the boat at all times (in spite of how hefty it is!).
In this video we sail from Santa Barbara to Catalina Island. We have a wonderful time sailing under spinnaker for most of that 90 nautical mile trip, allowing us to arrive with plenty of daylight left in the day. Along the way we have a spinnaker jibe go w...
Folding sails can be one of the argument-inducing activities around a boat. After working in a couple sail lofts growing up, I learning how to fold sails by doing it multiple times a day (lol, can you imagine the employee turnover at lofts if an argument b...
We spent the day out on the water, testing out a racing mainsail that came with the boat to see how we like it, and to get used to trimming it for different points of sail. Between Point Richmond and Alcatraz, we got every wind speed and every point of sai...
In this video we sail along with our friend Scott from San Francisco to Santa Barbara, stopping at Stillwater Cove and Sansimion along the way. We start to get the boat moving at the speeds it's made for on day 1 (17.5 knots speed through water; no SOG che...
Making a bed on a boat can be one of the harder jobs. We're always looking for unique ways to do things on the boat, and Ira really dove head-first into this one.
We just replaced our saildrive at the beginning of summer, and found recently that it was bonded to the keel and the AC grounding wires, which possibly also makes it part of the broader AC grounding system. We decided to isolate the saildrive from the bond...
Whiskey the cat loves to sleep on jackets that are the same color as his fur, and while he doesn't always love to sleep on his back, when he does, it's a DEEP sleep, as you can tell by his half open eye.
This video shows our trip from San Diego up to San Francisco, stopping at Catalina, Marina Del Rey, Santa Cruz Island, and Santa Barbara along the way.
This video was cobbled together from a number of shots we primarily took for instagram and just to capt...
This is a server rack radiator with a 12v pump to pump sea water through it, and three 12v fans that blow air through the fins of the radiator. If the difference between the air temp and water temp is large (cool water and hot air) this works great as an A...
While sailing from Santa Barbara to Catalina Island, we flew a spinnaker along the inland coast of Catalina. We weren't making one of the points of land we needed to in order to get to Avalon, and needed to gybe. This video shows how that gybe went fairly ...
Just taking a nap out on the spinnaker pole hammock, and someone calls for a jibe! What the hell!? This is definitely the Sailboat version of a dunk tank!
It's amazing sometimes the contrast between how peaceful and protected you are down below on a boat, versus up on deck, and the change happens the split second you put your head outside. I love it and find it challenging at the same time.
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