The Excellent Adventure

It’s been a busy time here at Excellent Adventure. I’ll break it all down over time, but for now, we’ve had this rush of free publicity. A reporter from Parents magazine, one from SAIL, and another opportunity that I’m keeping quiet about for now, but is TV based. Woah. I’ve also been asked to contribute [...]

Tags: Blog, Education, musings

Sunday, we decided we needed some mooring practice. As in, we hadn’t, and hey, you moor under power, not under sail, thus making the perfect activity for folks whose mainsail is still at the shop. And since Angel Island is the closest local mooring spot, that made it the default target. Miss Aurora, just starting [...]

Tags: Education, practice, Sailing, Talking Story

I don’t normally flog merchandise, but Zac Sunderland‘s family has t-shirts for sale on his site, to help raise money for his effort. So… make with the clicky and buy a few! Surely you know a bunch of cruisers who could use a new wardrobe item? What better than this? http://www.qbaroo.com/zacsunderland/main.cfm?categoryoid=1

Tags: Education, family, intrepid, Sailing, Zac Sunderland

OK, this is hands-down ubercool. I mean, uber, ubercool. Zac Sunderland is organizing a circumnavigation, on his boat, the Intrepid, an Islander 36. (Surely that fact will at least goad Zen into commenting. =) . Check out his website and the NPR interview with him. The interview is pretty lame, frankly, since the interviewer is [...]

Tags: Education, family, intrepid, Sailing, Zac Sunderland

As I mentioned in the last post, the Strictly Sail Pacific show was this last weekend. We ended up going Thursday and Friday, and when all was said and done, it was… informative. No, really. I managed to get a whole post for one of my other blogs, Life Without School, based on some of [...]

Tags: Boat Shows, Education, Holding Forth

Last Oct/Nov/Dec, I took the U.S. Sailing Coastal Navigation course. Eight weeks of class, each one on some new impenetrable mystery related to answering the questions “where are we going” and “how can we get there?” Who knew that Navigation was such a rich, textured, ancient art? So much passion, so much money, so much [...]

Tags: Education, Navigation