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Dinosaur Tracks

My friend Sam recently got me into dinosaurs. This is a woman who can geek out to some sci-fi, hike the Sierras and forage for edible foods like a bad-a$$, and is super into dinosaurs. As in, people give her…

Fuel System Stuff, Part 1.

A systems post. No fun pictures, no romantic language. You can stop reading here if you don’t care to read about the intricacies of the diesel fuel storage/delivery/polishing system on Horizon. In the broadest sense, this system discussed in this…

Starting to slow down

Doing yoga with a sea lion who is also doing yoga is a new experience. In Prisoner’s Harbor in Channel Islands National Park, off the Santa Barbara coast, I rigged up a sun shade on our foredeck, rolled out my…

Blown A-Whale

Our first sail out of Half Moon Bay, we saw between 50-100 humpback whales — humps, tails, spouts, even some breaches! And the closest encounter was a whale RIGHT NEXT to the boat who dove and splashed us on deck…