We spent 5 days in Crescent City, waiting for a weather window to make our way north to Washington. Crescent City gets a mixed review from me, but I was just happy to docked in a safe harbor for a few days. It is a small town with a number of run down hotels, frequented …
4 days of downtime in Crescent City waiting for wind to die down offshore allowed for time to compile footage and put together a video showing some of what went in to making this trip happen. I’ve been a hobbyist photographer for a long time but never really got into trying to do anything with …
Dougal wrote such a sweet story about our first day out to sea. Just the facts. All the technical details. My recount of the details during those first few days at sea is a little more belligerent. As we pulled into Crescent City this morning, with the sun rising behind the mountains and the lighthouse slowly …
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After being holed up in our home slip in Alameda for over a week waiting for a weather window to start making progress up the coast, it looked like Tuesday, April 17 was shaping up to be the day that we could actually leave San Francisco Bay. Jen and Cassidy have spent a lot of …
It was a mix of fear and excitement when Dougal told me that we would be departing on Sunday (April 8th). It was Wednesday, and Cassidy and I were at Disneyland. I’m not even in town! I need to go grocery shopping! I need to turn in the car (on lease)! We are having …