Walking up to our beached dinghy just after dark I quickly noticed something was missing — our outboard engine. “SON OF A BITCH, someone stole…
California Dreaming…
Standing over the port primary winch, I grind hard and watch our big white Code Zero fill with breeze. Accordingly, our crew can feel Yahtzee…
Highlights from San Francisco Bay
Sitting on the side of the dinghy, I take a long pull from a cold beer and look out at Yahtzee bobbing just off the…
Sea Stories: Romping 1,300-miles from Alaska to San Francisco
Gather around your glowing screen, dear reader, it’s time for some sea stories. For the Yahtzee crew, this particular yarn starts in the small fishing…
Come say hi, learn about cruising Alaska at the Wooden Boat Festival
I’m excited to once again be speaking at the Wooden Boat Festival (WBF) in Port Townsend, which takes place September 6th through the 9th at…
A sublime farewell tour of The Great Land
When we sailed through Southeast Alaska for two months in the spring and summer of 2017, one of the places we wished we’d gone was…
Endless Alaska summer rolls along
Anchored to the west of a tall mountain peak rising vertically from sea level, the sun is up and filling the bay, but not quite…
The Kenai Peninsula is a stunning playground
Looking up into the cockpit at Jill, Porter and Magnus, sunshine bursts over tall mountains and fills Yahtzee with warmth and light. I reach for my…
Taz Basin: Sunshine and a “hole-in-the-wall”
From my vantage point atop a large, round granite boulder, sweeping views of the Gulf of Alaska and rugged Kenai Peninsula coast seemingly stretch on…
The ups and downs of Aialik Bay
Reaching south out of Resurrection Bay past the Rugged Islands, an easterly swell rolls from our port side like small grey hills and a dense…