Most boat owners will tell you that things don't normally work out as planned.  Things break. Parts don't come in.  One job has a way of turning in to two or three.  It's the nature of the beast and should be expected making this past week where everything ran smoothly and according to plan saving us thousands of dollars in the process all the more remarkable. It started...

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David preparing to blow out the candles on his 60th birthday cake. Normalcy is taking hold again, as it tends to, and we're beginning to make an impact in the list of things we need to do before we can officially drop our lines and head north for the summer. But first thing was first and, when we got back to Washington, the boat was in a state...

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We arrived back in Washington on Monday after a long drive up I-5 from San Diego where we spent a few days visiting David's son – the past two months having been a blur of activity.  Everything's changed and neither one of us is excited about the upcoming sailing season, but hopefully that will change as well.  We can't say where we're going this year or how far...

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