I Miss My Daddy

Sometimes life gets ahead of us or takes us away, but then it takes another moment in life to make us stop and realize… we only have one chance. In life we really only have one chance for anything. I am a person about the moment or in the moment. Take life by the horns…

Boats Make You Dream…

The wonderful thing about boats is they trigger the art of dreaming. It doesn’t matter if it is my dream, your dream, or our dream. It is about the beauty of dreaming. It is so magical to be sitting in the office filing papers, at Starbucks surfing the internet, or in the cockpit adjusting sails….

Episode 34 – The Crew Takes 5

J & K reunite after J’s Oregon trip, we sail to Oakland to deliver the kids to their uncle Kurt, Skipper of the Plan B, and then we take a beater of a trip up river to Rio Vista. There, once again, we are reminded that sailboats are nothing but trouble sometimes (even though we…

Episode 33 – DOUBLE FEATURE – Surf and Turf

J heads to Oregon to help family and ends up turning the trip into a jackrabbit hunting spree while Kristina tests out some new anchorages in the Bay and trains kids to be Deckhands.

What is it about Boats?

I can name a hundred reasons why you should never get into owning a boat, but… (there’s always a but), but for every reason I can name not to buy a boat I can name a hundred more why you should. Why is that?… For something that is a headache, a hassle,  and a liability…

Episode 29 – Where the Magic Happens

Finally! We have a run of good weather, meet up with Captain Leasure for vegan burgers on his most epic Westsail 32 Tortuga, watch a new tall ship (Matthew Turner) get “splashed”, introduce you to more of the kids, and you get to see where J gets it when his mommy makes her Youtube debut.

Episode 28 – Nothin’ But A Good Time

Yup. We just put all of that on Youtube.

Episode 26 – Hiking the Hidden Staircase

After returning from the Farallones, we enjoy feelings of success from a good trip, but also feel failure from our inability to sail Rad Mode further. We address some boat work issues and swap out our brand new failing alternator for the old one before finally seeing some long awaited signs of spring on our…

Episode 25 – Rad Mode “Races” to the Farallones!

We prepare for and kick off the 2017 Double Handed Farallones Race and make a wonderful time of it. And for the record, that was a joke about the EPIRB.

Episode 24 – Early Spring Sailing on San Francisco Bay

After leaving Ladd’s Marina in Episode 21, the winds died and did their best to strand us in the Delta. They finally start blowing again and as we would soon discover, not stop for months.