We left San Francisco on February 10, 2010 with a plan to head south to Mexico and then make the innocently named "puddle jump" to the South Pacific (!!) this spring. From there, who knows?!?!?!? Maybe Fiji? Australia? New Zealand? For now, we're just thrilled to finally be out at sea! 
At 3:37AM (I know because we have a clock velcroed to the ceiling of the quarterberth) I awoke to an awful sound. A dull, heavy, rolling thudthudthudthudthud echoing through the water. “Matt!” I whispered. “Did you hear that?” and then the dread of every cruiser – “I think our anchor might be dragging.” Seconds later, […]
Entries Tagged as 'Our Route'
An undesirable encounter (or Balls to the Walls)
February 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Funny, Life on the Boat, Oh Crap., Our Route, The beginning
Hanging out in Catalina
February 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Our Route, The beginning, The Crew
After another day or so of motoring and floating around the (currently) aptly named Pacific, we motored into Two Harbors at Santa Catalina Island. We initially tried to anchor outside of Cherry Cove, which brought back fun memories of a college Intervarsity Retreat, but ended up in Little Fisherman’s Cove, a short dinghy ride away […]
Tags: Pete & Ray
Santa Barbara to Santa Cruz to Catalina
February 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · First Mates, Life on the Boat, Our Route, The beginning, The Crew
Because Pete and Ray didn’t have much time left with us and the wind wasn’t cooperating for a fast trip to, well, anywhere we wanted to go, we decided to head from Santa Barbara over to Santa Cruz island just across the channel. We ended up motoring most of the way, but it was a […]
In order to make that nifty map on the side work…
February 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Our Route
I need some sort of post to show that we went from Santa Barbara to Santa Cruz Island. This is that post. Maybe there will be a picture here someday, maybe there won’t. You can read about our SC trip here 🙂
Tags: santa cruz island
Sea Sunset
February 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Beautiful, Our Route, The beginning
Tags: first 3 days·sunsets
This sailing stuff is easy!
February 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Life on the Boat, Our Route, The beginning
Tags: first 3 days·Woman on a Boat
Leaving San Francisco!
February 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Our Route, The beginning
Tags: first 3 days·San Francisco
We’re Off!!*
February 10th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Our Route, Preparing for the trip, The beginning
Hopefully, by the time most of you read this, we will be far away from Emeryville, completely FREE of our slip, and making 6-8 knots downwind, beginning our grand adventure. If this miracle happens, I probably won’t post for a few days – well, no guarantees – because we are going to try and sail […]
Tags: friendships·San Francisco·thankful·winter·Woman on a Boat