Passage notes: El Granada to Santa Cruz
Log Book Port of departure: Pillar Point Harbor (El Granada, CA) Departure date and time: 7:30am on Sunday, November 11 Port of arrival: Santa Cruz, CA Arrival date and time: […]
Passage notes: San Francisco to El Granada
Log Book Port of departure: Aquatic Park (San Francisco, CA) Departure time: 8:45am on Sunday, November 11 Port of arrival: Pillar Point Harbor (El Granada, CA) Arrival time: 2:15pm on […]
Winter is coming
Cold weather has been chasing us for two months, lapping at our transom, and it’s beginning to catch up. Last night the temperature fell to the low fifties. For the […]
Angel Island State Park
Now that the repair is behind us we’ve been spending some time exploring the bay and plotting our next steps. The winter storm Brutus is just now hitting the west […]
Sharing the road
There are people on the water whose purpose is to drive a boat. There are the professional freighter captains with their floating freight trains, the patrol and police boats looking […]
Pride of ownership
We’ve had a lot of people come by Serenity while she hangs above the Berkeley waterfront, waiting for Monday morning to splash her again with her beautiful new old rudder. […]
Rudder repair
Before you begin reading, be warned that this post is more oriented towards boat nerds who are curious about how we took our rudder apart and put it back together. […]
The approach
We got lucky. It turns out that Serenity chose to fall apart in the very best place on the Bay, where transient moorage is cheap and there’s a DIY boatyard […]
October 2012: month in review
It feels like October was four very different months packed into one. A quarter of the time we travelled, day in and day out, eager to get South past Point […]
October 2012: cruising budget
Well, we aren’t getting off easy just yet. We’re still being raked over the coals…and perhaps having a little too much fun??? We spent most of October in the San Francisco Bay area (read: expensive) fixing our boat and visiting with friends.