After Harvest Moon, we had to get the boat back home. All of our crew had left so it was down to just Shannon and I to make the passage. There are two main options. One, go back offshore and sail all the way back, or two, take the Intracoastal Waterway. With our recent success, I was a big fan […]
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 […]
Debugging is a difficult process. As a software engineer I do it regularly so I’d like to think I’m pretty good at it. After our engine failure last week I thought that I could apply those skills to figuring out our engine troubles. After all diesel is pretty simple, all it really needs is air and fuel, right? It wasn’t […]
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 […]
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 […]
Shannon and I had our last sail of 2017 on Friday. The weather has been essentially terrible over the last few weeks. So finally, when the rain cleared up, we untied Nymeria from the dock and set off for a cold, winter day sail in the Galveston Bay. After getting out of the channel and into the bay, we hoisted […]
Its been a long time, but we’ve finally “finished” another video. Some famous director once said, a movie is never done, it just escapes. In this video we take our first day sail out in the Galveston bay, and please the gods by pouring lots of champagne overboard. Enjoy!
After living on our Valiant 32 for roughly 120 hours, we were happy to take her out on our first shake-down cruise. Our agenda was simple: Make it through the channels into Galveston Bay, complete the renaming ceremony, and then go sailing! Since we had been planning on taking her out all week, our excitement and anxiety had been building. When the […]
Well, it begins, again. After four months here on the beautiful Bolivar Peninsula, we are on the move. This time across the bay to move aboard Nymeria. The boat spent the last week at the shipyard getting a new bottom job and some plumbing repairs required by our insurance. Tomorrow morning we get to relaunch her as our new home. […]
