Although as we’ve lived in Mexico for more than a year now, most of our experiences have been coastal. And while we love the coast—there is...

A small sampling of some of my recent composite projects.  I'm getting good at fiberglass work I think. New carbon fiber/fiberglass t...

    I’m a sucker for ruins. I can spend hours sitting in the rubble of forgotten civilizations imagining the past. What I love most is to wa...

We were ready to leave Barra. We, and our dear new friends on Hanacrew, had ‘done’ Barra and we both had reasons to be back to La Cruz. But ...

It seems like the getting-to-know-Barra phase has evolved into settling in. We have a standing order with the French Baker (I even got a ro...

“There’s a new kid boat in the anchorage,” I told Maia—pointing at a boat anchored a short distance from ours. We had just got up. Hadn’t...

 “Attention the fleet, there’s a powerboat dragging down on two sailboats on the north side of the anchorage.” The VHF squawked the messa...

Our rig is a "big genoa / small mainsail" - unlike most modern catamarans.  It's a good downwind rig because you can leave the...

an evening performance It’s easy to reach a point, when you don’t blog every day, where you end up with a backlog of pictures and storie...

Okay--this is a bit dull. But as far as useful-stuff-cruisers-sometimes-need-to-put-their-hands-on a Net Control Script is one. In almost...