I read somewhere that running a cruising boat is like running a small city. I agree with this assessment. With covid time delaying our departure by a year, we’ve had another season of local sailing and mostly has been trouble … Continue reading →
We are nearing the end of a vacation week that took us to the San Juan Islands. Late Friday afternoon we sailed in some pretty solid breeze of 18 kts all the way to the Port of Kingston marina where … Continue reading →
Today marks Pasargada’s 11th day at Foss Harbor Marina in Tacoma. I’ve been using wifi and cellular pairing to work from the boat most weekdays but chose to take a couple days off (such as today). Noj is taking a … Continue reading →
In the optimization category again, we learned a few things about watch keeping on our Mahina Tiare trip. I wanted to have a functional and easy to use watch keeping station. I still don’t have the biscuit tin, but that … Continue reading →
[preparation] Over-optimization The 2020 Seattle Boat Show ends today. It was another great year of seeing friends, knocking out projects and learning. It seems really corny, but I love hanging out at the boat show each year. This year felt … Continue reading →
Happy New Year everyone! In less than six months this blog is due to become very active as we chronicle our journeys on Pasargada. Right now we are still working our day jobs and spending spare time getting the boat … Continue reading →
In about one week we will be heading to New Caledonia to join John and Amanda Neal on Mahina Tiare III for Leg 7 of their 2019 sailing expedition and training series. This is really exciting for us as it … Continue reading →
Wow, three years without a post. I guess that’s pretty normal for these sorts of blogs. The good news is that we’ve been cruising, racing and updating the boat. We’ve gotten pretty good and being “big-boat” owners I think, and … Continue reading →
This year Pasargada is kicking off summer fun racing with the June 11 Seattle Leukemia Cup! We enjoy racing and are excited to participate in this great event. If you’d like to celebrate our racing crew and help LLS fight … Continue reading →
Wet, wet, wet, windy, windy, windy. etc. We’ve been hankering to get some weekend sailing in and a destination was calling our name, and being valentine’s weekend and all, we figured a nice trip to Gig Harbor would be the … Continue reading →
