The Final Countdown – And Going Crazy
4 March 2013 - Solar Panels, Food, Heating & a new Cover With only a week to go before we head out on our sailing adventure I am learning incredible…
Darkness going up the Napa River
For the first time we found ourselves needing to go to a new location that we had not been to before with no person on our boat with a local…
Orin’s Trip to Napa
Orin (age 12) It was so exiting when we woke up early in the morning to set sail on the Napa river adventure. It was so cool wen we had…
Eli’s version of a Sleepy Sail to Napa
Eli – Age 9 Last week we sailed our boat up Napa River. We needed to get it hauled out so we could paint the bottom before the really big…
A Little Fall of Rain
One thing to remember about living in the tropics is that although there is more sunshine than you'll ever know what to do with, the rainstorms are like nothing you…
From Across the Waters
Hey, this is Alyssa here! Contrary to what most people think, I actually AM preparing in my own way for this sailing adventure. My family is in California living on…
How to fall from a ships mast
Last week one of our adventures involve dropping 70 feet in the air, getting spied on by an old man and getting a stern talking from the harbor master. Yep…
Boat Preparations – Can we cut anything out?
After I settled Zakary down for his morning nap Norm and I fell into our pattern of reviewing our endless list of daily essentials. [embedplusvideo height="552" width="700" standard="http://www.youtube.com/v/B_uotMw5nfE?fs=1" vars="ytid=B_uotMw5nfE&width=700&height=552&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=" id="ep5084"…
About Our Family of 10
You may notice that our blog photos of what we are up to currently include only 8 people in them but we consider our family to be a family of…
Climbing to the Top of the Mast
The kids were getting a bit restless today. This week has been filled with a myriad of projects and I think everyone was ready for something new to do. I…