(and other stuff)…December 2009
It’s been a long arduous fall since my last blog in August upon leaving Cutthroat securely docked in San Diego. I can report to you that Mom Wag is doing much better – it was very touch and go throughout August, September and through most of October…at least until her 80th birthday bash where 80 of her family and friends helped her celebrate at the Venice Yacht Club. It was a great affair and since then, she seems to be doing very well. We’re all glad for that especially since it now allows us to resume our life and move forward as we start a new chapter, or at least turn a page.
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Cutthroat Adventures 2009
12 August 2009
Many of you have raised this very pertinent question since my last blog – “What happened to the Central Coast?“ It’s not like we could actually do the Jeannie thing and cross my arms, blink, and there we are…docked in San Diego. So let me provide some explanation to this last leg of our summer 2009 West Coast travels down the coast.
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Cutthroat Adventures 2009
21 July 2009
City Time in San Francisco
San Francisco is a beautiful and vibrant city with so much to offer. Too bad its smack in the middle of one of the most liberal parts of our country…way on the extreme side of the loony left. If you didn’t know where you were; however, you might think you are in a foreign country as one rarely hears English spoken. Bringing you back to USA reality – are the vast numbers of Obama/Biden 2008 bumper stickers. I guess they need to remind themselves frequently of the fact. I think we’ll all be reminded as the small business entrepreneurs disappear, our redistribution of wealth plan continues, and the middle class can no longer get the health care they are paying for because we’re providing it to the people in our country who are here illegally. Yep, change you can believe in.
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14 July 2009
Out to Sea…again
“Maybe we should pull some more sail out…it’s back in the thirties”
We’ll get to that comment later…
Friday, 10 July 2009
I was happy to get back on my night watches again. Twelve to three – that’s my favorite time on the boat. It’s serene, nobody wants anything, and most evenings it is peaceful with time to reflect on whatever. We had a beautiful day exiting the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Clear blue skies, flat seas and no wind.
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We had a great sail once we got around Cape Flattery…thru Hole in the Wall. It was flat calm the entire way down Juan’s Strait. Once we rounded the Cape, the winds continued to freshen and stayed in the 20-25 kt category until around 4AM this morning. Then it pretty much died out; however, the USCG was discouraging bigger boats from entering the Columbia River Barge and in fact closed it to small vessels…so onward we go. The weather looks to remain good for Cutthroat sailing so our current plan is to just continue on to San Francisco. Charlie and Kathryne are fine…a little surprised at the ferocity of the seas (especially at night when the boat makes wierd boat noises and rolls a lot). They are anxious to get to San Francisco! It’s been raining much of this morning and we had some serious fog late yesterday and most of the night.
At the present rate we should be in San Francisco Bay on Tuesday afternoon.
We’ll keep you all posted. Everyone is fine and having fun!
Best wishes from the “Crew of the Cutthroat”
Elise, Roger, Charlie, Kathryne and Bob
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