We've had a great time in Santa Barabara. We've been here almost a week, but today we're off to the Channel Islands! Santa Barbara has been a nice first, albeit rolly, anchorage. It's taken some time to get used to how rolly

We left San Francisco at slack tide on Saturday (around 9:30AM) and arrived in Santa Barbara on Tuesday afternoon around 3PM. We sailed non-sstop for the first two days. On the third day, we stop in the beautiful Secate Anchorage past Point Conception to ensure that we would arrive

I'm so happy we decided to stay a bit longer and do a shake out cruise in the delta for numerous reasons! Most importantly, I'm happy we got to spend a little extra time with our boating friends, and make some new ones. But like always

All our non cruising / non boat friends don't quite understand how hard it is to plan anything while cruising. Planning and crusing don't mix well together. The number one question I got at the party was, "When are you leaving?". My very candid response

Thanks everyone for such a fabulous time at the party. We had a great time and we appreciate all the love and support. I can't explain how special everyone has made us feel! 🥰 We headed out the very next day to KKMI to get some more work on

We've had a plan all along. We bought Tiamat with cruising in mind. We have been working through our list to get ready to go cruising. We had a 5 year plan. We bought the boat in 2018, which puts our crusing time frame in the year 2023.

One of the most frequent questions we get  is why are we doing this? Who decided this was a good idea? First, let's give some background! When Owen was a kid, his parents took him to live in Italy for 2 years. Even though he was young (5