We slipped from F float at Pier 39 at 1130 on Friday the 13th under clear skies and still airs, and assisted by a 4 knot ebb, we motored under the Golden Gate at noon. Before we reached Point Lobos, the winds had come-up from the northwest and we hauled-out all three sails and proceeded southwestward [...]

We arrived back yesterday afternoon from Vancouver, where we had finally taken possession of and moved into our new loft. The eleven-day trip was a non-stop sequence of allowing the pieces of a complex puzzle to fit themselves together, sometimes with a bit of tweaking or nudging.

In my Navy days, we would store ship before departing on an extended cruise. All department heads would submit their lists of requirements, orders would be placed and trucks would arrive on the jetty. Transferring the stores onboard and below to their respective storerooms was quickly accomplished with [...]

We really bounced around in the storm the last couple of days on J Float at Pier 39. The breakwater on the west side of the pier does not protect the floats there from the wake of passing ferries and other GFBs, so with the 40 to 50 mile and hour winds with gusts to 60 of the past couple of days, it [...]

Yesterday at noon we slipped from the buoy at the Sausalito Yacht Club and motored the four miles across San Francisco Bay to a slip at Pier 39. This is a great location from which to explore the city: it is half a kilometre from Fisherman's Wharf, just a tad further to the Italian District around North [...]

We slipped from the guest float in the Port Angeles Boat Haven at 1505 on Saturday, the 3rd of October and set off for San Francisco. We caught the tail-end of the flood, then washed out the Straits on a strong ebb, rounding Flattery at 2147 under a full moon and clear skies.