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  • Nautical escapes for the confined sailor

    Here to meet your need to shift focus in a positive way: a slew of freebies, cheapies, and cool offers aimed at helping the confined crowd find (or stay on) an even keel in the face of our fuzzy futures. Feeling stuck in the 24 hour pandemic news cycle of Click here for full post: […] More

  • 190225 and 190301- Basically starting over?

    With my elbow on the mend (it was an inflamed bursa over the elbow) and my neck under control, I’ve gotten a bit stir crazy from not doing something to keep myself in shape.  See, throughout my life I have done sports that kept me in decent shape: mountaineering, climbing, More

  • Surviving the Summer Heat: Sea of Cortez Update

    The summer heat is in full-force here in Baja Mexico.  Highs are regularly in the high 90’s F (about 37° C), with the humidity and dew point making the “feels like” temps reach between 105-110°+ F (40-43+° C).  Those temps, combined with the very, very still air, make for some pretty brutal conditions. So how […] More

  • Surviving the Summer Heat: Sea of Cortez Update

    The summer heat is in full-force here in Baja Mexico.  Highs are regularly in the high 90’s F (about 37° C), with the humidity and dew point making the “feels like” temps reach between 105-110°+ F (40-43+° C).  Those temps, combined with the very, very still air, make for some Click here for full post: […] More

  • Stop! The boat just broke!

    “Stop!  The boat just broke!”  Those were the words that I yelled out to Ty from the bow of Varuna at about 10:30 PM this past Saturday night…  Not the way we had expected our night to turn out. We had just said goodbye to life near shore after a Click here for full post: […] More

  • Stop! The boat just broke!

    “Stop!  The boat just broke!”  Those were the words that I yelled out to Ty from the bow of Varuna at about 10:30 PM this past Saturday night…  Not the way we had expected our night to turn out. We had just said goodbye to life near shore after a week or so in Santa […] More