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…
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"…
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…
Knocking on the escape hatch
Sometimes it is the little things woven into the fabric of my day that create everlasting images. Today it was my sun splashed children scrambling on and off the dock…
Chocolate Cocoa Powder Mess
Do you ever get the feeling that every time you take one step forward you are being pushed two steps back? Today was one of those days. I started the…
Seasick on the Open Ocean
We had been wanting to take a longer trip to get some great sailing experience and visit the protected Farallones Islands about 26 miles off the coast of San Fransisco.…
Family Visit – 13 Now on the Boat
We received a surprise call yesterday that our relatives, the Leavitt's would be coming to visit us on our boat for a few days. The kids were all excited to…