

Community, Part II: Slowing Down
In our first six months of cruising we covered nearly 5500 miles. (That is a lot of miles in a sailboat in a short time.) We have consistently felt like there has not been nearly enough time at each of our stops, particularly in British Columbia and Alaska, and that we were missing much more than we were seeing. We were nearly half way down Baja California when we received a text from Isabel (la niƱa) asking if we could meet up with her in Mazatlan on the 19th of December. We


Community, Part I: Our Sailing Community
We recently retired a tattered CYC Seattle burgee. It flew for over four thousand miles from Seattle, up through British Columbia, on through Alaska, and down the California coast. For us, the burgee represents our sailing community, and we fly it proudly. I've been giving this a bit of thought lately, as the Seattle Boat Show approaches and I am not there to represent CYC. Sharing the sailing community. I have repeated the CYC tagline hundreds of times, chatting with potenti