Category: Sailing

A reader of our blog asked whether he’d missed an article we’d written about a recap of our first 12 months.  Oops.  We never wrote one.  Actually, that’s not totally true.  We did write an article about our first year and submitted it to the monthly sailing magazine of the San Francisco Bay Area – Latitude…

These rules have been verified by our friend, Matteo Fontana, a native of Milan now living in Florence. 1. Only order cappuccino in the morning. Never after a meal. Ever. It’s too heavy. Most Italians drink espresso in the morning, but some have cappuccino or a latte (more milk and more coffee compared to a…

       We left Villefrance-sur-mer, France and made our way to Italy. Our first stop was Imperia in an anchorage so rolly that we had to brace ourselves while sleeping, lest we fall out of bed. Imagine the racket your house would make if it was rolling back and forth twenty degrees off center.…

       Provisioning, or what landlubbers call “grocery shopping” is one of the joys and pains of cruising. On the one hand, it’s not that easy to keep a boat stocked with nutritious and delicious food, when you never know how or when you’ll get to stock up. We have a cramped fridge that…

            After our harrowing experience in hurricane-force winds in Puerto Roses, we hunkered down for a week waiting for our weather window to cross the Gulf of Lyon to get to France. During that time we were able to fix the exhaust hose for the generator (meaning, I – Jennifer – worked…