“The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Christopher McCandless
Last fall we were sailing down to Bellingham and saw this thing zoom by. What in the world? We were near the U.S. border so thought perhaps it was a new stealth Navy boat? Maybe the real Batmobile boat? We waved at them with Gin Tonics in hand and they were out of sight in no time. A few weeks…
This project and the adventure we are on is intense. It seems we haven’t had many moments of pause in the past few months. During the weeks we go straight from work to the shop to finish woodwork preparation for varnish. On the weekends we drive an hour south to Bellingham to work on Leela and are almost always the…
We’re only 2 weeks away from the boat going in dry storage for the final 2 months of the refit! Some of our waterproofing projects require a dry dock and that’s impossible to achieve with the boat being outside in the Pacific Northwest. And of course, they don’t have covered storage tall enough to handle our boat with a 50′…
Saxony is way too humble to brag about this, so I have to do it for her, but she is quite the talented DJ. She will kill me for writing this but it’s all very true. Friends and family who have the privilege of spending time with her quickly realize she is in charge of the music. At home, on…
