We moved from our little house to the Bella Rosa, which feels more like a hotel, and our room is on the third floor. Most of our things are already on the boat, but somehow, we still lug around a lot of things. As we unpacked and carried things into […]
Comfort Cruising
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We are so thankful for the little place we found here. It’s a lovely two-story, three-bedroom, two-bath house with a yard just across from the beach. Unfortunately, with boat projects taking longer than expected, we have to move out today into an apartment for eight days and then move back […]
We bought a 106-foot sailing yacht sight unseen in Montenegro while living our perfectly happy life in Kodiak, Alaska. Naturally, everything became complicated after that. Wow, so much has changed since I last wrote here. We stopped blogging for a while to protect our children’s privacy. Since those early posts, […]
We could choose from so many different titles; Welcome Leif, New to the Crew, Shake Down Long Island, We’re Back to Blogging, Eight Years in the Making. . . the list could go on. Eight years ago, Wade and Sara met the old-fashioned way at the Harbor Pub. Leaving the […]
Planning our route to Kodiak took a few considerations to time our arrival before sunset at 7:21 pm. The overall voyage from Missak Bay, Alaska Peninsula to St. Paul Marina, Kodiak Island is approximately 73 nautical miles. If you wanted to guess our arrival time off the average speed of […]
Yesterday morning had a crisp chill in the air and the temperature in the morning was around 40 degrees. We haven’t harvested the garden yet, so we were a little worried about the plants wilting. As the sun came up it warmed the cockpit to 80 degrees. In the cockpit […]
Our alarm went off at 3:30 am. By 4:00 am we were pulling up the anchor. At 4:05 am Wade was rushing back to the cockpit, stating we lost power to the anchor windless. He went into the cabin to check the breaker switches, on his way and back to […]
Wide Bay is truly a blow hole. As we approached Wide Bay around 9 or 10 am there was no wind, literally no wind, glass calm water, and not a ripple anywhere indicating there was wind. The temperature read 60 degrees, and not only did we have the scenic rugged […]
We couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful day, well, that isn’t exactly true as we wish we had some wind, but beggers can’t be choosers. The outside temperature not in the sun is around 65 degrees but in the sun is closer to 70 to 75, even 80 degrees […]
This must be a real vacation for Sara because she has not had to cook in two days (well maybe breakfast), but no seriously! Wade gets the triple C award (which is better than a three star Michelin rating). As normally a C would be an average grade, but here […]
Dawn seems to come later and later. Sunrise today was 8:42 am. We laid in bed and watched a little rays enter through the skylights as we slowly started to wake up. To our surprise, outside we heard a whiney outboard go by us. Sara made a joke to Wade […]
Or perhaps instead this blog post could be entitled Moo-burg (like hamburger) or Moo Town, Cow Town, well you may be getting the idea that there are cows around our anchorage this evening. Yes, we have struck beef, not gold, in this anchorage outside an abandoned gold mining town that […]