A day in the life
I’m up here in the occasional cool of Mabrouka’s cockpit with an emaciated afternoon wind sidling through. It gets up enough energy a minute or so at a time to […]
Autopilot woes devolve to ancient history
[This entry has been sitting in queue for quite a long time. I almost hate to post it because it’s (for one) such a lonnnnnnnng (and two), saaaaaad story that […]
Haul Out 2015
I just came out of a long yard period, almost two months on the hard. That was a long time in such an environment. Place Mabrouka high and dry on […]
Chacala Approach
[This event dates back to the first half of March, but the summer lightning and thunder storms here in Mazatlan brought the imagery to mind and I share it with […]
Dandelion Wine
The Cruiser’s Lounge is a place of refuge for sailors the world over. Tucked into the nooks of a million waterborne destinations, they harbor the boisterous seagoing conversations of nautical […]
Yelapa Uptown
Yelapa’s beach head is dominated, like virtually every Mexican coastal town I’ve ever seen that has a modicum of shoreside sand, with shady palapas erected out of bamboo or palm […]
Yelapa Beachside
It may seem like I’m abandoning my newly minted guideline of fabricating these blog posts on a strictly topical basis, but Yelapa epitomizes a special cruising topic beyond its eminence […]
Imperfect Recall
This may the the third or fourth time I’ve made excuses for not keeping up this blog. This time I think any attempt I might make to resurrect sequential details […]
Pensive
It is an unusually pensive evening, brought on by having just paid my taxes. Necessities in maintaining Mabrouka and preparing her for cross-Pacific sailing have incurred heavier withdrawals from my […]
Staging Southward from Mazatlan
I don’t know why the sky insisted on grumbling and weeping over Marina Mazatlan when it was poor me that had to shelter below to the snare drum sound of […]
S/V Mabrouka 