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.
November 2020 Fuel Leak, Fender on the Loose, Sinking Kayak, Bees on Board, Dead Batteries, and Pirates – Oh Yes, All on a Lovely Cruise to Catalina by Rich & Peggy Ciolino
SEPTEMBER 2020 LITTLE SCORPION CAVES BY JOHN PROFANT
AUGUST 2020 TRIP TO LADY’S HARBOR ON SANTA CRUZ ISLAND BY LISA BURNS
JULY 2020 FATHER’S DAY TRIP TO PELICAN BAY ON SANTA CRUZ ISLAND LISA BURNS
JUNE 2020 A MAY SHAKEDOWN CRUISE BY SCOTT BURNS, DENNIS JOHNS, AP, VIRGINIA JOHNS, P
November 2019 Boating Safety in the Channel Islands
This is a short video about boating safety from Michael Hanrahan, a Lecturer at UCSB, that was filmed here in our harbor and the local Channel Islands. The United States Power… Keep Reading
October 2018 Passage Planning with Savvy-Navvy by Dick McClary
October 2018 It’s a Small, Small World by Dennis Johns, AP
We departed for faraway lands in January 2011. Our route took us due south along the west coast of Mexico and Central America. We met several other fellow cruisers along this route but were concerned to find nearly everyone we met was going north to put their boat up for the coming summer months of the hurricane season. Were we making a grave mistake our first year out? Fortunately, when we arrived at an estuary named Bahia del Sol in El Salvador we discovered the group of cruisers that were headed in our direction.
September 2018 Cruise to Catalina by Steve York, P
The SBSPS 2018 Cruise to Catalina was a lot of fun! We had three boats participating – S/V Ecco Bella with Rich and Peggy Ciolino, S/V Peregrine with Eleanor and Steve York, and M/V Mariposa with Mark and Ellie Cooper. Dennis and Virginia Johns had planned to join as well but since our departure was delayed until August 8th (see below), they dropped out as they had a narrow window to go and return by Sunday August 12th.