I spent the month of February at the marina where I began my life as a LiveAboard. I was dog and boat sitting for friends on vacation. It was nice to catch up with folks I haven’t seen for a while, but I can’t say I miss the old slip. I take this as confirmation [...]
Archive for the ‘Trips’ Category
Back to the Beginning
March 1, 2012
Eggs and Pears at the Hotel California
October 29, 2011
I still haven’t quite left this place yet. I am only anxious in the sense that the weather is growing cooler and I’d like to be safe behind my wall-o-eucalyptus before the first storms of the season hit. Plus there’s a strange endless routine of boat cleaning and painting that I have fallen into as [...]
Stockton
October 10, 2011
The San Joaquin River was like a highway on Friday. We managed to sail a little bit but after a while the traffic was so heavy it hardly seemed worth it. One particular Chris Craft roared by so close we believed he had malicious intent. My poor boat rocked hard as there was no way [...]
Pirate Party
September 18, 2011
Sometimes I have excellent timing. To be a guest at the Pirate’s Cove Marina on Harbor Day when they throw their annual party for their tenants was a coup in the extreme. People began to arrive and stake their spots under tented tables by 11 am. A wide variety of appetizers appeared on the tables [...]
Freshwater Pirates
September 15, 2011
Two days in the Potato Slu “bedrooms” and I am grateful to again have access to electricity and NPR and a really nice cafe. The slu proved to be another training ground for single hook, swing in a circle anchor technique. Once I felt confident that the one hook was going to stay put, the [...]
Delta Marina Yacht Harbor
September 12, 2011
The HOT weather at Snug Harbor turned into a cool overcast Bay Level Bluster day on 9-11. My American flag was whipping flat out. The wind was all on the nose and the chop and white caps (white caps?) were against me, even as I turned Southward towards the Rio Vista bridge. We were hobby [...]
Nine Eleven
September 11, 2011
I am flying an American Flag half mast today. I was on the East Coast and saw it happen real time, which only made it more surreal. Also surreal is how technology works and gave me back the missing photos from yesterday. So here for some levity is a dingo in an embarrassing outfit “You [...]
Four days in Nowhere Slu
September 10, 2011
Ok folks, I’ve just paid ten bucks to get on line to let you know that I’m still alive. My cell phone quit promptly out here. To the annoyance of bridge operators who asked me for my “land line.” I’m on a BOAT, what kind of land line should I be having? I’m at Snug [...]
Ride em Cowgirl
September 5, 2011
Once it was clear that motoring was all that could be done from Pittsburg to Isleton, I set up a faux bimini for much needed shade. The temperature was over 100 and I was having trouble seeing past my cover. I also couldn’t steer comfortably so I got creative. I attached two lines to the [...]
Not a Vacation
September 4, 2011
Sure, sure, this trip to the Delta is not a vacation. Tell me another one. But really, this is serious business. The brain shift to a rhythm suitable for self-sufficient and contained living while surrounded by the land-based work-a-day world is not easy. Just having a computer and wifi flies in the face of my [...]
