Sailing Vessel Precipice

Our journey has finally begun ten years after the dream was hatched and five years after the date was set. Our website is finally live: www...

A wood boat of this size has some half mile of seams between the boards. All of the seams were scraped out, primed, repayed, and painted. ...

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Precipice came with a really pathetic galley. You couln't stand in front of the sink or the stove. A better place for the diesel heat...

Last winter I ripped out most of the interior of our boat and put enough of it back together for the summer so that we could sail. This wi...

I have been taking classes to get my Coast Guard captains licence. This is an intensive process that includes drug testing (I passed) a phy...

About 80% of our house church likes to sail. Unfortunately, 20% of them get really really sick. This is a higher percentage of sailors than...

This is an actual picture of me running the 5/3 River Bank Run - a 25K race. Apparently I wasn't as fast as the camera expected me to...

Top 10 reasons not to tease your daughter about throwing her over the rail of a lighthouse: 10. You might be categorized with Michael Jack...

One of the things I often get asked about is bad weather. We have had our share of it through the years, sometimes we even have deliberate...

Following the advice of the guidebook sailor, we rowed up a creek and then hiked about a mile up a trail and found a waterfall slide. Bonu...

Our first evening in the pool, another sailor who had been here about a dozen times came over and caught us up to speed on all the things t...

I can still hardly believe that I can sail into this beauty. This is the end of Baie Fine. It is called "The Pool" Blueberry p...

This is the entrance to Baie Fine. We knew something was up already. The rock was white instead of red, and it was higher. The water wa...

Calvin and Hobbes in the cockpit, snuggled under a blanket, in the middle of nowhere. They have absolutely no idea what blessings they hav...

At this point in the trip, I had completely relaxed and forgotten deadlines and work schedules. Life had settled into a "Grapes of Wr...

On the south half of South Benjamin Island is an area of lower level rolling rock, the plains if you will. Some of these rocks would have ...