I go to Fry’s every May to find out what I’ve forgotten to bring so I’ll be better prepared for the rest of the summer. Steve Carlson and Boris Alves joined me on the pleasant trip. We left the Harbor at 8am Friday, motoring over. About 8 foot swell’s made it interesting, and the… Keep Reading

February 2022 News From Adventurer Sailors by Patrick White & Alyssa Lewis

NOVEMBER 2021 BUCKET AND CHUCK-IT or What to do when your toilet misbehaves by RICH AND PEGGY CIOLINO
While gathered in the saloon one evening playing a board game our son leaned over to me and asked me “Do you smell something like urine?”. I did and I dreaded something bad but didn’t want to immediately face the consequences of finding a leak in our toilet system that would likely come with a major interruption in what up-to-now had been a stress-free and fun get-together.

October 2021 A Whale Tail (the picture that got away) by Lisa and Scott Burns

September 2021 What a Cruise! Catalina 2021 by Rich and Peggy Ciolino

August 2021 “A Summer Visit to Santa Cruz Island July 2021” by Steve Hodges
As we approached the shipping lanes, visibility was only a few miles; we could see the west-bound ships, but the east bound ones could only be seen on AIS. Unfortunately, this was literally true as, after more than 20 years of operation, our radar went kaput. Oh well, it’s only another couple of boat bucks…

July 2021, The Summer Sailstice Sail to Pelican’s Bay, or How we get by with a little help from our friends by Lisa Burns

May 2021 Lightning in Costa Rica by Dennis Johns

March 2021 Fish, Fishing & Catching by Garrett Osgood

February 2021 A Tranquilo Baja and Back by Steve Hodges
Honestly, if I’d understood the nature of the brain-tickling test for Covid-19, I might have hesitated before agreeing to having it done. But the four of us had agreed that as incipient Tranquilo crew, where we would live in close quarters for about two weeks, we should do what we could to protect each other’s health. That doesn’t mean we didn’t bring a lot of potato chips.