Author Archives: Tales of Misadventure

We took the bus into Brentwood to get groceries. I saw this and had to take a picture. It’s what popped into my head when I saw it. Kathy was unimpressed!

Our 1988 outboard motor developed a sneeze over the last year, which sounded like an old man with COPD attempting to walk a short distance.  Step…step..*cough*…step..step…*cough* and then stop…rest. No longer was it a confident, strong, reliable entity but a weak sickly thing that kind of made you feel sad. When motoring to the dockContinue reading “Outboard Surgery”

Last week there was a Catalina rendezvous at Roche Harbor.  Since Kathy and I were already there, we were excited to join up and meet other owners of Catalinas to get ideas on how to improve our own.  Twenty-five boats showed up, and we were quickly overwhelmed with meeting new friends, technical talks, and groupContinue reading “One IS The Loneliest Number”

Last year I put Kathy in charge of communications in our hope that she would keep everyone updated on our travels.  I thought she’d be motivated by being responsible for such an important function and made it one of her KPOs.  But alas, dear reader, I believe the evidence supports the facts–she failed miserably.  Sure! Continue reading “We’re Back!”

We left Brookings with great enthusiasm – we had a great weather window, and our autopilot was fixed. We had done a sea trial a few days earlier and ventured outside the bar to test it. After 1.5 hours we deemed it fixed and headed back to port to celebrate. We left at 5:30 amContinue reading “Brookings to Coos Bay”

A boat fire in one of our worst nightmares. I smelled something burning. Not a “wood in the fireplace” smell, but a “the whole house is burning down” smell. I opened all the doors in the boat and sniffed. The smell was not coming from Adventure…Phew! I told Sean to get his coat. I wantedContinue reading “Brookings – Boat Fire!”

We had our first visitors! (photo taken from our MastCam) Rob and Keri came for a few hours to pick Tim up as he headed back home. We went to town for a sushi lunch, and they took us to Fred Meyers to get groceries. Since we don’t have a car, this was a niceContinue reading “Fun in Brookings”

We needed to test our autopilot again, so decided on a short hop up the cost to Brookings. We left the Crescent City dock on April 15 and it ended up taking about 5.5 hours to get to Brookings. The autopilot did not work right…again. This is really bumming us out. But the seas wereContinue reading “Made it to Brookings!”

Watch the wrap-up of our journey to and around Crescent City.