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Seventy-Year-Old Sailor Rescued Off Santa Cruz Island
Rescuers say a lone 70-year-old sailor lost all electricity on his 50-foot yacht near Santa Cruz Island and was airlifted to safety by a U.S. Coast Guard crew before his vessel ran aground and was destroyed.
A Coast Guard official said that without electricity, the man could not start his [...]

Most cruising guides tell you that stopping in El Salvador is not a very good idea. They say that the place has no safe harbors and has been at war for a long, long time. But we’d been at sea for almost five days, including the night we spent hove-to off the entrance to Bahia del Sol.

What drove us to do something as crazy as making a sailing DVD? Here’s the backstory.

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In late 2004, we returned to Santa Cruz, California after a six-year voyage that took our family through the Panama Canal, across the Atlantic, around the Mediterranean, and home again. Once returned, Monica, a physical [...]

What drove us to do something as crazy as making a sailing DVD? Here’s the backstory.

Click here to purchase the whole DVD
In late 2004, we returned to Santa Cruz, California after a six-year voyage that took our family through the Panama Canal, across the Atlantic, around the Mediterranean, and home again. Once returned, Monica, a physical [...]

Flying a spinnaker for the first time can be both exhilarating and challenging as LaLain, Yuka, Carl, and John discover during our Pacific Yachting class on the Monterey Bay.
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Download Las Canarias to St. Lucia
The rhumb line from the Canary Islands to St. Lucia is about 2600 miles but in sailing, a straight line between two points is rarely the quickest. Ever since the Spanish began plying this route in search of plunder among the Americas, seafaring wisdom has dictated sailing southward on the [...]

When I was a young boy, my father and I would take walks along the seashore and he would quote “Sea Fever” from memory, thus infecting me with an archetypal imagery that has sustained me through life’s many trials.
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What drove us to do something as crazy as making a sailing DVD? Here’s the backstory.

Click here to purchase the whole DVD
In late 2004, we returned to Santa Cruz, California after a six-year voyage that took our family through the Panama Canal, across the Atlantic, around the Mediterranean, and home again. Once returned, Monica, a physical [...]

(In my opinon, the Moore 24 is the quintessential Santa Cruz boat. Back in 1990 I was the editor of the Moore 24 Class Association newletter. The newletter developed quite a reputaton in the Bay Area with articles like “Shoot this Baby Otter” and “Moore Homes for Homeless”. I wrote this silly ditty after my [...]

Download Melges World Championships, Santa Cruz, 2007
This clip is from footage I shot at the 2007 Melges Worlds Championships in Santa Cruz, California. My thought was that it might provide some interesting footage for our DVD project, “Around Monterey Bay”. In years past I raced quite a bit– as skipper aboard my Moore 24, Presto, [...]