ShareClose Bookmark and Share This Page Save to Browser Favorites / BookmarksAskbackflipblinklistBlogBookmarkBloglinesBlogMarksBlogsvineBuddyMarksBUMPzee!CiteULikeco.mmentsConnoteadel.icio.usDiggdiigoDotNetKicksDropJackdzoneFacebookFarkFavesFeed Me LinksFriendsitefolkd.comFurlGoogleHuggJamespotJeqqKaboodlekirtsylinkaGoGoLinkedInLinksMarkerMa.gnoliaMister WongMixxMySpaceMyWebNetvouzNewsvineoneviewOnlyWirePlugIMPropellerRedditRojoSegnaloShoutwireSimpySlashdotSphereSphinnSpurlSquidooStumbleUponTechnoratiThisNextTwitterWebrideWindows LiveWorlds MoviesYahoo!Email This to a FriendCopy HTML:  If you like this then please subscribe to the RSS Feed.Powered by Bookmarkify™ More »Though Randy Chapman is a newly minted captain, he’s got more experience sailing the Channel Islands than anyone other than Brian Fagan, [...]

              Twenty years ago, Captain Sean Quine set out for the first overnighter on his new yacht. He sailed to Smugglers Cove on an idyllic afternoon. Conditions changed. Radically. People – though not in Sean’s crew – died. Log entry: 28 October 1988 Maiden overnight voyage on Down Under, [...]

This graphic from Sailflow is just that – a pretty damned graphic explanation of why Santa Ana’s can be so dangerous – even if you’re not at sea when they hit. When we tied up the Big Girl (Sancerre) last Friday afternoon, we put a couple of extra fenders on what is normally the windward [...]

The dredge H.R. Morris is with us once again, sweeping out Channel Islands Harbor. There has been more shoaling than usual, so they’ve scheduled the operation into late November. Local Notice to Mariners advises us to contact “Dredge H.R. Morris” on channel 16 to get passing instructions. As she’s sometimes mid-channel, it’s a good idea [...]

Dennis Dreith, the Bosun, Tom Ryder, my son and I did our annual trip to San Miguel. At about the same time of day at about the same spot as last year we encountered a pod of Fin Whales. Known, too, as the Finback and to those who speak Latin as Balaenoptera physalus, these agile [...]