Where it all started

It was 8 years ago this week that this sailing bug really hit me. Before that sailing was a thing that I had done on rare occasion with friends on their little sailboats on little lakes in the mountains. I do (barely) remember sailing on my grandfathers boat on Lake Superior, but I was so young im not sure it […]

Taking the Tempurature

Somewhere in the ditch coming home from the Harvest Moon Regatta, we started having some “engine” troubles. The engine temperature was fluctuating. Turns out the engine itself was fine, but the gauge wast working. This started a fairly typical rabbit hole of a repair. We decided to replace at least the temperature gauge and sender so that we could be […]

Engine failure at sea!

There are not many moments in sailing better than when you hoist the sails and shut off the motor. On the other hand, the moment the engine shuts off and you didn’t want it to, that’s another story. One day in March, Shannon and I were out on just another weekend day sail. The weather wasn’t perfect, but we wanted […]