
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
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
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
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...
My sister thought Santa Catalina Island was a resort and a little posh. She is correct. But it’s a good refuge here in Cat Harbor and since Sampaguita draws so little...
Category: 2023 Voyage, Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Overnight Trips, ThreeSheets, Wildlife Tags: anchorage, bison, California, Catalina Island, Flicka 20, just do it, Marine wildlife, Pacific Seacraft, Pardeys, sailboat, sharks, socal
Sampaguita is tucked away in Morro Bay while the wind makes a ruckus off shore. Presently at anchor in the tidal estuary swinging one way then the other, while the afternoon...
Category: 2023 Voyage, Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Overnight Trips, Wildlife Tags: Anchor, bar, California, estuary, Flicka 20 sailboat, harbor patrol, moorage, Morro Bay, shore access, USCG
Well, they’ve done it again. ‘Lectronic Latitude and Latitude 38 have published another Resourceful Sailor piece. I can’t be more grateful. This one is about reviving 80s technology and using it...
A special thank you to Casey and the Santa Cruz Yacht Club for hosting Sampaguita, and a shout out to Roland Nikles, the president of the Port Townsend Sailing Association, for...
Category: 2023 Voyage, Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Overnight Trips, PTSA, Racing Boats, The Dock Life, Wildlife Tags: adventure, Flicka 20, migration, Monterey Bay, Sampaguita, voyage, whales, yacht clubs
I will be attempting a west-to-east transit of the Northwest Passage in the summer of 2022 as crew aboard a French-owned and built Boréal 47 sailboat. This trip begins in Anacortes,...
Category: Culture, Overnight Trips, The Northwest Passage, The Salish Sea, ThreeSheets, Wildlife Tags: Anacortes, arctic ocean, Atlantic Ocean, baffin bay, Bering Straight, Boreal 44, Breskell, Cambridge Bay, Canada, Canadian archipelago, centerboard, France, Newfoundland, Norwhal, Peel Sound, Polar bear, Pond Inlet, port townsend, sailboat, Sampaguita, Sir John Franklin, The Northwest Passage, tuktoyaktuk, Vancouver Island, washington
Photo: Eric Maffre Breskell stopped in Tuk for provisions and repairs and left with a story of human connection. Tales From The Northwest Passage – Tuktoyakyuk – What’s In A Fish?...
Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Overnight Trips, The Dock Life, The Northwest Passage, Wildlife Tags: 48 North, Beaufort Sea, Breskell, Canada, Morgane and the Big Blue, Northwest Maritime Center, Northwest Passage, pingo, provisioning, public dock, Salmon, Tuk, tuktoyaktuk, vagrant speciers, voyaging
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