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The Plan Will Reveal Itself
In the cruising world, there is a common saying, “Plans are written in the sand at low tide,” which rings true as there are so many factors completely out of the sailor’s control that conspire to flip the script. The…
Read More »Selecting and Prepping Crew
Full disclosure, Felicità is set up primarily to be a two-person boat. Resources are limited, as is space. So we’ve learned to think deeply about how and when we bring crew aboard. Over our first seven months cruising full-time we…
Read More »To Rally or Not To Rally…?
We had hundreds of ocean miles on our sailing resumes before shoving off on our boat. So why join a rally? Could we have done the trip down the Baja peninsula without the rally? Absolutely. But, at the end of…
Read More »Funding a Refit
When I started dreaming about crossing oceans, I scoured the Internet, read every book I could, and subscribed to tons of sailing YouTube channels — all to answer one question, “How much is this going to cost?” And as it…
Read More »Two Weeks and Counting
This time in two weeks, we’ll be one day into our passage to Cabo and this floating show will finally be on the road. We have a few items left on the to-do list–only one is really important, a few…
Read More »Reality “TV” Sailing Style
I wake, roll over, and check the YB tracker to see what’s happening with the 2022 Golden Globe Race (GGR) fleet. This group of intrepid sailors departed from Les Sables-d’Olonne, France on September 4. I repeat this ritual every four…
Read More »Be Bothered
When I was learning to sail my dad pointed out that when bad things happen on a boat, “it’s usually not because one thing went wrong, but because a lot of things went wrong at the same time.” So the…
Read More »Help Clean Up Our Waterways!
Saturday, September 17 is International Coastal Clean Up Day. The Ocean Conservancy is galvanizing communities worldwide to collect trash that pollutes our waterways. These efforts will make our coasts cleaner and ocean and lakes healthier. We’ll be on Point Loma…
Read More »Making the Decision to Go
Eighteen months ago, we declared that Tim was going to retire in the summer of 2022 and we were going to get ourselves and our boat, Felicità, ready to set off on our world cruising adventure. This decision was a…
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