Morpheus Sailing

Not sure if I celebrated too early and brought this upon ourselves or what, but the wind came back up to 30+ at sunrise.20 knots now.The rule of thumb here…

We've past the worst portion of this gulf and are now sailing with the wind just aft of the beam in 20 knots.We saw 31 knots for a bit, but…

All is well. Deb is sleeping, the dog wishes it would calm down, but really things are fine. 25 knots and building slowly. Double reefed, no engine. Almost have the…

5:45pm - smooth seas, 2 miles off the beach, nice sunset, beautiful scenery, and ONLY 18 knots @ 40M.About to enter the belly of the beast....let's hope our luck holds.-Jim----------radio…

Looks like we have almost 1.5 knots of current from behind and about 18 knots of wind from ahead. Makes it a bit bumpy. All good though, although the dog…

12:27 local timeWe have left Huatulco (very nice town by the way), and are on our way to Costa Rica!!The forecast is good, and we'll just see how things go.Current…

The view from our dinner table tonight!  Almost didn't go, but glad that we did.  Brings back serious Sunday afternoon Wide World of Sports flashbacks!!!

We left Bahia de Navidad yesterday, bound for Zihuatanejo. I was on watch, and kept seeing Boobies (the sea bird...)standing on the water, which usually means give them a wide…

I've just learned that my friend Drake Sparkman has passed away after a long fight with brain cancer.Struck down during what appeared to be one of the happiest times of…