I Can’t believe that our last blog post was in November 2021. It has been so long! Since then, it seems that we have been both constantly evolving and moving while also standing still. We went more introspective and pulled away from social media, for multiple reasons. We’ve definitely had some ups and downs over the past 9 month with […]
Upon coming back from Utah in June, we started our preparations for getting the boat into full cruising mode. We had, and still have, the plan of leaving Texas waters to Florida and beyond after the2021 holidays. One quick way to get everything ready was to participate in the Harvest Moon Regatta once more. We were thinking that it would […]
Our New Year’s Resolution was to keep up a weekly blog schedule to document our adventures, both the celebrations and challenges. In doing so, we’ve written a lot about our recent adventures and the many upgrades/maintenance performed on Nymeria. What we haven’t done is give you all the details and specs on the boat itself. We’ve updated the ONA website […]
Sailboat racing is an interesting sport. Things move really slowly, until they don’t. A few weeks ago, Shannon and I went out on Nemesis, a race boat that we often race on, for some spinnaker practice. This was in preparation for the Bay Cup I race, an annual two part race out in Galveston bay. We’ve done this race on […]
Of the many sails we have for Nymeria, one is a spinnaker. Its a very pretty, usually brightly colored giant downwind sail. We have never flown it. Honestly we are probably just scared, but also we have no experience with it. Its not a simple sail to fly like many of the other sails we have. This last weekend we […]
Its 4AM, we are as prepared as we can be. The rest of the crew will be arriving shortly. All that’s left is to undock and go. Nymeria is ready to race the 2019 Harvest Moon Regatta. We first heard about the Harvest Moon shortly after we bought our boat. It’s an annual 150 mile offshore sailboat race from Galveston, […]
First, we need to apologize for not updating everyone to exactly what is going on. We did many things over the summer, some very fun, others not so fun. If you look at our position now, compared to the beginning of the summer… well, were in exactly the same place. We unfortunately ran into some engine troubles early in the […]
Wow, where have the last four months gone? I’m not real sure, but a lot has happened in that time. Hopefully this will serve has a catch up, and we will start keeping you more up-to-date with more frequent updates again. So, what have we been up to? Well, mostly we’ve been sailing and working on the boat. Early in […]
