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Jul 29 2010

San Diego to Oxnard – way fun

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Jun 20 2010

Alaska Cruising – a great adventure, but happy to be home in SoCal

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May 21 2010

Flying whales, porpoises, dolphins – all part of today’s show in the Santa Barbara Channel

Dall’s Porpoise – according to our reference manual – is quite common. Nevertheless, I saw them this week for the first time,  and I’ve been sailing the Pacific for more than 20 years. I’ve got some film of the critters, but it’s indistinct, blurry, shaky and – maybe – barely usable. That’s because these guys [...]

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Apr 23 2010

Eaglets starting flight tests

Our Santa Cruz Island eaglets are growing fast, and, as I wrote to one of my shipmates I saw yesterday that the chicks are learning some manners, dodging out of 26′s way as she settled into the nest in the afternoon. Those chicks are not pretty kids. They’ve gone from being really grotesque at hatching, [...]

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Apr 21 2010

Rusty & Denise wed aboard Wiley off Ventura coast

Rusty and Denise now share a surname – They’re Rusty and Denise Ely now. They married aboard Wiley with several of their friends there to witness. Capt./Chaplain Dan officiated and Leia manned the helm and shot the video. We had shirt-sleeve temps and enough wind to sail but not so much that the girls’ hair [...]

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