🎶Come sail away with me🎶
As I write this, there are only 8 days left in the year 2020. I can honestly say that this year has been very challenging and I will be happy to see him go. (Yes, I’m using the male pronoun here on purpose.) In my almost 45 years of being alive, 2020 is definitely…
A few weeks ago, we were really starting to come out of the slump that was 2020. Yes, we had a few boat issues, but looking forward felt good. There was light at the end of the tunnel. I was excited to write about some new upgrades to the boat, (I still am) and…
I was hoping to write about our new Solar panel and power monitoring system install, or our camping trip last weekend, but boat life had a different idea. The weather here in Texas has only two states, too damn hot and too damn cold. Some time in Oct/November the temperature goes from 80 to…
I discovered aviation at a very young age. I remember pouring over aviation book and reading about pretty much every aircraft that existed. By (insert arbitrary young age here) I could identify nearly any airplane that I saw. I was certain that I was going to be a pilot when I grew up. Well,…
This is a first, I’m actually writing this post while on the anchor. The last few months have sucked, to be honest. Both for the obvious reasons, and becasue we’ve not been out sailing as much as we want due to temperature, storms, and/or boat work. Now though, things are finally changing. The first…
What can I say, it’s been a bit tough to motivate to write for the blog lately. Usually it’s exciting to start writing about whatever adventure we just went on, or the new upgrade we just installed. Even though we’re still adventuring, and installing upgrades, the general mood on Nymeria has not been all…
2020 is quite a year huh? Well, for us she just struck again. Last weekend I flew to Park City to say goodbye to Lopa. My dog that I have had for most of my adult life. Back in the fall of 2007, a few years after graduating college I had a steady job…
It seems to be a common thing around sailing communities to have some sort of Wednesday night racing. Here, they have a fairly large fleet of J22, Catalina 22, J24, new RS21 and many other smaller boats. Every Wednesday its likely to see 30-40 boats running up and down the lake. I’ve always wanted…
It appears that we are well into the hurricane season with Texas already being hit with Hurricane Hanna. Even though she was a Category 1 storm, she produced sustained winds of 90 mph, a sea-level rise of more than 6 feet and more than 15 inches of rain as she made landfall on Padre…
Growing up in Oklahoma meant that each spring I would be on the lookout for thunderstorms which might bring tornadoes. We would listen for the sirens and either head to the front porch to look around or head to a safe place and hunker down. Upon moving to Colorado, we would watch the weather…
