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  • Sailing Down Baja: A Thousand Miles Of Savings?

    Today I’ll discuss some of the generalities of how much money and effort it took to finally untie the docklines and roll out of San Diego, down the coast of Baja and into our first three months of cruising.  I closely watched our finances before we left…cause we were pretty low on More

  • Great Dane On A Boat: Baja Spa Day

    Quincy is a 133-pound Great Dane who lives on a cruising sailboat that’s currently somewhere in Southern Baja.  She’s lived on the boat for over a year and just transited More

  • Less Than 30 Days

    We’re at less than 30 days till Baja Ha-Ha and still want to go. Great news is that our new sails came in yesterday. They’re not on yet, but they’re here. Now, we need our engine back in our boat so we can test it, get the valves readjusted and More

  • Provisioning Has Started

      Today as I’m writing this post, we STILL don’t have an engine in the boat (its been four {4} weeks since it was taken out) and our sails were shipped yesterday…so we’re still hoping to leave on 04 Nov.  With this in mind, we’ve started our initial provisioning of More

  • Quincy’s Corner: Waiting On Mom

    I’ll start this post by admitting I have no idea how to weave the word of the day for today…”sensual” into a Quincy’s Corner post right now.  It’s been a very long week for both Quincy and the family as we’ve had lots of heat and humidity and the boat More

  • Short List of Recommended Professionals-

    For years we’ve lamented the service level in the marine industry in various places we’ve had our boats, always trying to use business’s that give us great service.  I honestly try NOT to use outside help cause I want to try to do my own work, but when I can’t, More

  • Baja Ha-Ha 2018 Through My Camera Lense (Casting Off The Docklines)

    Gotta be honest….after meeting with our mechanics and hearing that they probably won’t make the 4-week deadline (we had originally been quoted) for fixing our sailboat engine, my motivation was lower than usual.  In reality, if the engine isn’t fixed by November 4th we’re still going down Baja whenever it More

  • Rebuilding Our Aging Sailboat Engine- Gotta Start Somewhere-

    The 120HP Ford-Lehman workhorse of an engine in our 1977 Aleutian 51 Ketch seized just off Catalina Island, Ca several weeks ago, unable to be restarted and requiring in a very long tow back to San Diego.  As a result, we were hoping to have the mechanics from VB Engineering More

  • Great Dane on a Sail Boat: Great Dane Gets Sneaky!

    Great Dane’s are notorious for loving “off-limits” areas where a human might sit down or sleep.  Cause when a Great Dane gets onto these pieces of furniture, no one else does.  Wanna see what this looks like on a boat with very small beds?  Especially when she thinks she’s getting More

  • Will We Make the Ha-Ha?

    We went to Catalina Island, Ca last weekend but didn’t make it (to land) cause our engine may have seized up.  Our engine’s currently in pieces with a team of mechanics working with us to find the exact problem- get the engine out of the boat- fix it- and put More

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