Sailing on Starshine
| Vessel Name: | Starshine |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Outbound 44 |
| Hailing Port: | San Francisco, CA |
| Crew: | Pat and Melodie Williams |
| About: | We have been "working the plan" since 2004 when Pat began taking sailing lessons. That lead to a few sailing vacations on sailboats. Melodie took some classes too. We purchased our boat in 2011. |
27 February 2019 | Alameda California
26 February 2019 | Mazatlan to San Francisco
26 February 2019 | Mazatlan Sinaloa Mexico
01 May 2018 | El Cid - Mazatlan
09 April 2018 | Marina Mazatlan
07 March 2018 | La Cruz de Huanacaxtle
23 January 2018 | La Cruz de Huanacaxtle
04 December 2017 | La Cruz de Huanacaxtle
24 October 2017 | Oakland, CA
04 September 2017 | South Lake Tahoe CA
04 September 2017 | Culver OR
04 September 2017 | Culver OR
04 September 2017 | Redmond Oregon
17 July 2017 | Polson Montana
31 May 2017 | Our new Camper in Ira Texas
04 May 2017 | Nuevo Vallarta, Riviera Nayarit Mexico
04 April 2017 | La Cruz Anchorage
12 March 2017 | Chamela Bay
12 March 2017 | Tenicatita Bay
18 February 2017 | La Cruz de Huanacaxtle
Recent Blog Posts
27 February 2019 | Alameda California
Goodbye Starshine
Melodie and I have accepted an offer on Starshine. We close escrow on March 8, 2019.
26 February 2019 | Mazatlan to San Francisco
The Baja Bash
Preparing for the Baja Bash (the trip north from Mexico to California). They call it “The Bash” because the prevailing winds and waves are from the northwest. So you are basically going uphill (if that makes any sense).
26 February 2019 | Mazatlan Sinaloa Mexico
Summer 2018
As many of you who have followed our blog over the last four years you’ll note that I have not given it any attention since last spring. So let me fill in the blanks.
Tropical Depression
25 September 2015 | Marina San Carlos
Pat - Hot
We've been dividing our time between planned projects and undiscovered problems.
You may recall our Ample Power 120 Amp unit burned up. We're trying to get Ample Power to send us a rebuild kit. Ample Power has very poor customer service, so we're still trying to get the parts ordered.
We experienced our first Chubasco (plain thunder storm?). About 1230 am I woke up to some thunder and lightning. I got up to take down my bath towel from the lifelines. We discussed taking the sun shade down, but it started pouring rain so we decided not to take it down. About ½ hour later a line snapped on the shade and it began flapping in the 25-30 kt wind. So up we went in the down pour. We got it down without any problems, but we sure got soaked in the process. The sun shade is not new and some of the tie down loops are degraded from the sun. We'll dry it off today, but keep it down for the next day or two because the forecast calls for a few more fronts to move through the area. The clouds have cooled things down, it's nice to open up the boat for some fresh air and not run the air conditioner.
On Sunday 9/20 a Tropical Depression E16 went right over us. Lots of rain and wind to 30+ knots. It hit about midnight on Sunday (Mon early). We got up to check the dock lines and we rigged some extra fenders. A chock on a neighbor's boat pulled out of the toe rail. We made it unscathed, but tired. We didn't sleep much with all the noise.
In the morning there were three boats on the beach. One boat on the west side of the Bahia was up high on the beach and we made no attempt to float her. A trimaran went on the north shore, just about 100-150 yards west of S Dock. It suffered some pretty significant damage to it's port hull. We were able to pull it off the beach with M/V Island Time's trailer power boat (he has two, one is big and one is smaller). The other boat was a 40-45 sailboat. It looked like an old yellow Valiant. Anyway, we got that one off the beach too. The Valiant was not a very seaworthy boat. The bridle for their mooring ball gave way. We got it into a little deeper water and dropped the hook. There was some discussion about re-anchoring her in deeper water, but there were no volunteers to pull up the chain by hand (the windless was inop).
One other power boat drug anchor in the night, but was able to re-anchor around midnight. He lost his hard dinghy and outboard on the beach. But we were able to retrieve both and bring them into the marina so he could rinse the motor and fix the dinghy. The "D" bolt on the bow had pulled out of the plastic.
I spent the rest of the day relaxing. I was pretty spent after 2 hours of all that excitement.
We took a walk into the neighborhood over-looking the marina. That's the view looking down at our dock (on the left).
That's all for now.
You may recall our Ample Power 120 Amp unit burned up. We're trying to get Ample Power to send us a rebuild kit. Ample Power has very poor customer service, so we're still trying to get the parts ordered.
We experienced our first Chubasco (plain thunder storm?). About 1230 am I woke up to some thunder and lightning. I got up to take down my bath towel from the lifelines. We discussed taking the sun shade down, but it started pouring rain so we decided not to take it down. About ½ hour later a line snapped on the shade and it began flapping in the 25-30 kt wind. So up we went in the down pour. We got it down without any problems, but we sure got soaked in the process. The sun shade is not new and some of the tie down loops are degraded from the sun. We'll dry it off today, but keep it down for the next day or two because the forecast calls for a few more fronts to move through the area. The clouds have cooled things down, it's nice to open up the boat for some fresh air and not run the air conditioner.
On Sunday 9/20 a Tropical Depression E16 went right over us. Lots of rain and wind to 30+ knots. It hit about midnight on Sunday (Mon early). We got up to check the dock lines and we rigged some extra fenders. A chock on a neighbor's boat pulled out of the toe rail. We made it unscathed, but tired. We didn't sleep much with all the noise.
In the morning there were three boats on the beach. One boat on the west side of the Bahia was up high on the beach and we made no attempt to float her. A trimaran went on the north shore, just about 100-150 yards west of S Dock. It suffered some pretty significant damage to it's port hull. We were able to pull it off the beach with M/V Island Time's trailer power boat (he has two, one is big and one is smaller). The other boat was a 40-45 sailboat. It looked like an old yellow Valiant. Anyway, we got that one off the beach too. The Valiant was not a very seaworthy boat. The bridle for their mooring ball gave way. We got it into a little deeper water and dropped the hook. There was some discussion about re-anchoring her in deeper water, but there were no volunteers to pull up the chain by hand (the windless was inop).
One other power boat drug anchor in the night, but was able to re-anchor around midnight. He lost his hard dinghy and outboard on the beach. But we were able to retrieve both and bring them into the marina so he could rinse the motor and fix the dinghy. The "D" bolt on the bow had pulled out of the plastic.
I spent the rest of the day relaxing. I was pretty spent after 2 hours of all that excitement.
We took a walk into the neighborhood over-looking the marina. That's the view looking down at our dock (on the left).
That's all for now.
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