
Anchor News: Sampaguita pitched her way through a good 24+ hours of 20-30 knot winds in Bahia Tortuga. A nearby boat said they recorded 32 knots. (Sampaguita has no anemometer.) I...
Category: 2023 Voyage, Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Overnight Trips, ThreeSheets, Wildlife Tags: amigos, Asuncion, baja haha, Dana, flicka, john vigor, San bartolome, Tortuga, voyage
I guess all I needed to do was mention rain. Want and ye shall get, or something like that. Sampaguita is anchored in Bahia Tortuga, Baja, Mexico. We arrived this morning....
Category: 2023 Voyage, Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Overnight Trips, ThreeSheets Tags: anchorage, baja, California, Flicka 20, Mexico, Pacific Seacraft, voyage
Baja California is not the same as Southern California. Sampaguita left Ensenada at 4:30PM on Tuesday, November 7th. Not an ideal leaving time with an hour of sunlight left, but we...
Category: 2023 Voyage, Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Overnight Trips, Wildlife Tags: anchorage, baja, Flicka 20, isla cedros, island, nome, Pacific Seacraft, sailing, voyage
Viva La Mexico. A new chapter has begun as Sampaguita arrived in Baja California’s Ensenada this morning about 10AM. It was a long slog from San Diego that took about 25...
Category: 2023 Voyage, Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Overnight Trips, The Dock Life Tags: baha, California, Corona, cruising, Ensenada, Flicka 20, knitting, Mexico, Pacific Seacraft
Thank you Latitude 38! This is my first hard copy publication with them (but it’s online too) and appears in the November 2023 issue. Special props to Monica and John for...
Category: 2023 Voyage, Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Overnight Trips, The Resourceful Sailor Series, ThreeSheets, Wildlife Tags: bioluminescent, breach, California, grey whale, humpback, killer whale, Latitude 38, Lectronic Latitude, offshore, orca, sailing, San Diego, San Francisco, tale, whale
Sampaguita sits at the Shelter Island Guest Dock, in San Diego Bay. We’ll be here for a few days getting our ducks in a row. Looking back, the last time Sampaguita...
Category: 2023 Voyage, Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Overnight Trips, The Dock Life, ThreeSheets Tags: Flicka 20, Navy, point Loma, provisioning, sailing, San Diego, San Francisco, shelter Island, voyage
I love it when a plan comes together(80s reference.) Sampaguita did another overnight trip to get to Bonita Cove, Mission Bay, from Dana Point. We had used up our five days...
Category: 2023 Voyage, Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Overnight Trips, The Salish Sea, ThreeSheets Tags: Anchor, Bonita, California, Dana Point, Flicka 20, Navy, Newport Beach, provisioning, San Diego
Sampaguita. Sam′pə gē′tə. What a beautiful name that no one can understand on the radio, at least here in the States. It’s not any better on the telephone, or in person,...
Category: 2023 Voyage, Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Overnight Trips, ThreeSheets Tags: anchoring, Dana Point, dinghy, drone ship, Duffy, Flicka 20 sailboat, flower, Newport Beach, northwest, Pacific Ocean, rockets, Sampaguita, voyage
Well, almost. Sampaguita sits in the Newport Beach, CA anchorage, about as close as she can get by water. She was built by Pacific Seacraft of Fullerton, CA in 1985. Sampaguita...
Say that three times fast. Sampaguita and I are still resting here at Twin Harbors. For logistical reasons, we decided there was no rush to get to San Diego. The Baja...
Category: 2023 Voyage, Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Overnight Trips, PTSA, ThreeSheets Tags: anchoring, baja haha, California, cat harbor, catalina, cruising, dana 24, Flicka 20, island, Pacific Seacraft, writing
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