Just Pics: Dinghying About
In case you are still wondering how our search for a [structurally sound] dinghy concluded, I’ll go ahead and let these pictures do the talking.
An Intertube is Our Back-up Plan
Living just feet from the spectacular Bay of Kotor – and with a private concrete dock at our disposal – Adam has been on the hunt for a small sailboat, dinghy or even kayak to get us out on the water during stay.
Adam and Molly Go Sailing on Betty Jean
Here’s our new boat Betty Jean: This picture was taken last November at the public docks in Newport Harbor, CA. She’s one of 100 or so Fuji 32s, designed by John Alden and built in the late 1970s. We have hull #51, built in 1977. Molly’s dad told us that one should have a boat…
Dinghy Ride: A photograhic journey just above the water line
Island Time (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Two-Dinghy System)
Every night, I write in my Log – which is just a cooler (not to mention more nautical) way of referring to my journal. I started the log several months ago in a desire to track my time and document my accomplishments – which is a big word for any little thing that I manage…
Adam and Molly Go To Catalina, Part Two
Saturday, Sept 11, 2am We woke up to sounds we never heard at the Marriott Marina at 2:00 in the morning, fishermen cracking open energy drinks and talking loudly, getting ready to head out to sea in their fishing boats. We started getting ourselves ready too, putting on warm clothes, closing all the hatches and…
Adam and Molly Go To Catalina
We’re here!! After several months of planning, list making, repairs, provisioning (nautical term) and imagining, last Friday we tied up loose ends at the Marriott Marina, and said goodbye to Slip B33, Grand Slam’s home for the past 12 years. The Catalina plan was an idea we’d been toying around with for a while. We…
Adam and Molly Go 