The revenge of hubris

Right off the bat you need to know the odds of making it to the end was near zero.

February on the Bay with Artemis

Experimental Sailing Craft A foiling cat with a kite sail… Artemis 45 on her new foils today Artemis with Golden Gate Bridge This is a sailing winged catamaran… exciting day out on the water

Big Bad Boats

Rocket Science a mini-monster from the Cook Islands. This is 50 feet, water ballasted, twin ruddered, carbon fibered, wickedly fast boat with a 13 foot draft!!!! I stepped aboard a monster Sunday. The beast tethered to a dock. Sixty-five feet of ocean going, purpose built, go anywhere, under any conditions sailboat. The beast had […]

Good Man to Go with a Good Woman aboard a Blue Water Vessel

I’m a big fan of traditional yachts. Here is Chris and Helen’s. Lyle Hess designed this vessel with the Bristol Channel Cutter in mind. She displaces almost twenty thousand pounds. She is made of wood. Chris built her in New Zealand. While her hull is made up wood she’s been sealed (in fiberglass?) and LPU painted. […]

Water Wonder Dog World

Lacey is a good dog. I tell her that. I say, “Lacey you are a good dog.” She’s deaf now. Can’t hear me, didn’t listen when she could unless I said, “Where’s the ball?” Then she heard me! She’s 14 years old now and sinks like a stone. She doesn’t have the energy to […]

Under the Spell of a Golden Gate Wooden sloop, Hull #18 Maestro

Indian summer ignites my passions. I don’t mind a hot summer day, don’t care for a cold winter night, but those last gasps of balm that slather my skin as the Northern hemisphere inevitably marches toward winter stir some deeper part of my yearnings. Because fitting out a wooden sloop is so time intense they […]

Removing Change

Finishing Bankrupt Heart meant I could focus on finishing the refinishing of the exterior of our redwood home. The east side of the building hasn’t been touched since it was first stained in 1974. Orbital sander in hand and with about 40 hours of spare time and just like that the side of the house […]

Change Changed Newport

Busking was salvaged from the dictionary some years back and put to work again as a term describing street performing. I visited Newport, Rhode Island and while strolling the waterfront walked past this joint. Not that busking would go down very well in Newport. I make it my business to know about where buskers play […]

Change of Address of Changes

I’m in my home up in the hills. I can just see the chimney of Eugene O’Neil’s Tao House from the living room. I’ve been here since January 2010. We came from Telegraph Hill in San Francisco where my wife and I lived together since March of 2007. We had an apartment at the edge […]