Bringing Her Home

May 17, 2010

The plan was to meet Allison in Richmond at 9:00 and shuttle the ManVan back to Emeryville where we would pick Jon up and drive back to Richmond. Unfortunately the ManVan had other ideas. Somehow, after hauling a ton of gear over 700 miles, the ManVan decided to give up the ghost right in the [...]

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Mast Prepped and Stepped

May 13, 2010

I spent last night on the hard. I’m not sure I can adequately convey how strange it is to be on a boat that isn’t moving. When I’m working on it, its not so noticeable(unless I look up, then I get severe vertigo), but sleeping on it my body demands the gentle rocking. It is very [...]

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Bay Marine

May 13, 2010

If you need to get work done in a yard in the Bay Area, you should definitely check with Kim Dessinger at Bay Marine. Kim has been incredibly attentive to me throughout this process. When I was working on the rig he came out several times to give pointers, and when I was considering work that I would do [...]

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Welcome Convivia

April 22, 2010
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The last month has been a roller coaster of emotion, effort, and progress. We took a second position offer on a wonderful Cal 43 up in Washington and are now in the very final stages of purchasing her. By Monday or Tuesday of next week we should be the owners of the newly named sailing [...]

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Auf Wiedersehen Windekind

March 11, 2010
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For those of you who haven’t seen my long face in the last two days, it’s time to announce the sad sad news. We have decided to walk away from Windekind. This was probably the hardest fall that I’ve had, boat wise, and it has been really hard to see the silver lining, but when [...]

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Survey & Sea Trial

March 2, 2010

This weekend we head down to San Diego to meet the current owners of Windekind for a Sea Trial. I am beyond excited to see what this boat feels like under sail. With a Bob Perry’s guidance and feedback, I feel like I know her sailing characteristics pretty well, but there’s nothing like having your [...]

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Nautical Anniversary Gifts

February 26, 2010

At this point —with a week to go until sea trial and surveys, and another week until closing—I’m doing whatever I can to distract myself. Today’s post is the product of Victoria and my anniversary lunch this summer. We were waiting for our food to come and, as always, dreaming about sailboats. So without further [...]

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In Defense of Brightwork

February 24, 2010

Throughout our boat buying process one theme has dominated the advice our friends have bestowed upon us—”Keep the brightwork to a minimum.” “Oh sure, it looks nice, but who wants to spend all their time varnishing.” The message was so pervasive that we dramatically changed our search criteria for a while to accommodate this tenet [...]

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Boat Pics

February 23, 2010
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Boat Card

February 22, 2010

Victoria got me all excited to create a boat card. This is a proof. The actual card we’re going to print has the contact information on the back and just the URL on the front

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