Feb
07
2010
There’s an email list for parents of children who are considering cruising. We’re a funny and eclectic bunch. You get questions about Personal Flotation Devices (and why the heck can the UK create a fabulous kid’s PFD with integral harness and the USA just will not?), questions about homeschooling, questions about all the crazy details [...]
Tags: cruising, family, living aboard, musings, Sailing Kids
Dec
20
2009
Check the blog out over on ElementalMom.
Tags: family, living aboard
Nov
04
2008
Yesterday, a boat down the dock from us caught on fire, and burned pretty thoroughly. The hull might be salvageable, the contents are destroyed, and the owner’s dog, who was asleep inside at the time, died.
We’re all pretty devastated. Jason and I talked about it last night, and while I was not going to blog [...]
Tags: fire, living aboard, marina, safety
Sep
03
2008
After getting my head handed to me on a yahoogroup for daring to ask about greening my galley and possibly replacing my propane cooking appliances with electrical, I was amused to see this article on gCaptain, “Solar Powered Ships“.
Granted, this is commercial, not private, shipping we’re talking about, and the economies of scale are utterly [...]
Tags: Environment, living aboard
Aug
22
2008
I was awakened this AM by a woman screaming. I figured it was someone goofing (which happens) until the words “someone please call for help! He’s trying to kill me!” penetrated my sleepy brain.
I paused just long enough to pull on some pants and rocketed up to the deck. Where as promised, a young woman [...]
Tags: Emeryville Marina, living aboard, marina
Feb
28
2008
Long ago and far away in another world, when Jason and I first moved in together, in our search for rental digs (very very hard to find in Santa Cruz, CA), we settled on a place that I considered to be “cute and funky” and Jason, with his lifetime of experience in building trades, considered [...]
Tags: Jason, living aboard, Maintenance, progress, repairs, Upgrades
Feb
26
2008
A few weeks back, I got an email forwarded from the Berkeley Parents’ Network, from a woman whose family was considering a move like ours, looking for some practical, BTDT advice about making the big leap. We chatted back and forth, and set up a day to have them come sailing.
Unlike our previous adventure [...]
Tags: guests, living aboard, Sailing, Talking Story
Feb
22
2008
Rather than spend this post whining about the fact that my long-awaited Birthday Sail plans have been put out of commission by another long stretch of rain and storms, I decided to go back and catch up on some of the material I’d collected over the warmer, sunnier, kinder days.
For boat kids, life is an [...]
Tags: art, family, living aboard, simplicity
Feb
07
2008
Whoot! I am so excited!
My first ever podcast interview is live on Carla’s Miss Adventuring show. You can also access it directly from iTunes, if you’re so inclined.
Carla is going to be turning her guests’s “Tips for Misadventurous Living” into a book somewhere along the line, and you can see my (and the other guests’s) [...]
Tags: Carla King, living aboard, Miss Adventuring, podcast