Category: Sailing

A frequent comment I get from friends and co-workers when I tell them I’m taking two years off to go sailing is, “You’re so brave!” Ssshhh…don’t tell anyone but I’m not.  The farthest thing from it.  I’m Yellow Bellied.  Lily-livered.  Chicken.  Gutless.  A Scardey Cat.  People will ask me, “Aren’t you scared of rogue waves?” …

Several days into our trip and we are still in familiar territory.  Our first leg was from San Francisco to Santa Cruz.  It was a pretty boring slog, mostly motoring, that lasted 13 hours.  We “dropped the hook” (anchored) at about 10:30 pm. We woke up to one of my favorite views: looking in on…

(This article was written by my pal Ken Kaplan at Intel.  To see original article go here.) Across San Francisco Bay, from where America’s Cup yachts used space age sailing technology to reach unfathomable speeds, another sailor is counting on technology to prepare for his own epic sea voyage. Darold Massaro, his wife and 9-year-old son are…

Ever since I first met my husband (in college) he has dreamed of sailing around the world.  It took him about ten years to convince me to join him and another five years of preparing.  Soon we will be untied from our dock.  It’s true that the hardest part of embarking on an extended sailing…

These are questions that we’ve been asked by friends and acquaintances when they learn of our trip: Where are you going?  We will cruise south, stopping along the way in California and Mexico. Then, we will go to Panama, through the canal, island hop in the Caribbean until May, go up the Eastern Seaboard of…