Baja HaHa 2016

On Board S/V Mariah Don and I arrived in San Diego to join Trish and John Billings on their 41' Morgan ketch for the annual Baja HaHa, THE annual cruiser's rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.  The Baja HaHa is organized by Latitude 38 and is run in 3 legs: San Diego to …

Sprucing Up and Adding On

Once we got 3@50 home it was time for a cleanup.  Luckily, our shop is large enough to swing out the amas (the outside hulls) and have full access to all of the hulls, the trampolines...everything. We spent our first summer with AHA completely going over every inch. Pulling everything out, evaluating what to keep, …

Salt Water At LAST!

Whew! What a trip. Seemed simple enough....we'll trailer over to Southern California, put in at Dana Point, cruise over to Catalina buddy boating with old friends Rod and Kim (that's Kim up above), sail up to Newport, then back to Dana Point and head home. 2-1/2 hrs from home we blew a trailer tire. No …

In the Beginning

Don and I (Janet) have been talking about buying a boat since we were first married in 1997 and living in Southern California. That's a long, long time.  But, life was busy between careers and kids, and the time for a boat just wasn't there.  Eventually we settled on a little ranchette in Tombstone, AZ …