Author Archives: Tales of Misadventure

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.

Crescent City was the most impacted harbor on the West Coast by the 2011 tsunami. It was completely destroyed. Entering the marina, we saw two buoy markers in the middle of the channel just before the docks. We were confused as to their purpose and did not know which side to pass on. I randomlyContinue reading “Touring Crescent City”

We left Fort Bragg two days ago and got clobbered by King Poseidon for 33.5 hours. We endured 12-foot swells, cross swells that we called the washing machine, and seasickness. To add more misery to the pain, our autopilot was still failing. On the positive side, we rounded the dreaded Cape Mendocino, the most westernContinue reading “Travel Update – Crescent City”

The dreary day we left Fort Bragg was a harbinger of the journey that lay ahead. This is the leg of the trip we would pass the dreaded Cape Mendocino, notorious for big, confused seas. This is how it started…

Watch Sean’s creative rendition of our dinghy trip up the Noyo River.