Having bought the boat off Craigslist in a ready-to-sink state in the backwaters of San Raphael in the San Francisco Bay we spent two months scrambling to get the boat in a semiseaworthy condition. Before the boat was really ready for the ocean we set sail under the Golden Gate, checking for leaks every hour and more than a little worried that all our hard work would just fall apart in the first strong wind. We should've had more faith however, she held together and is still floating as I write this anchored Mariner's Cove in Mission Bay near San Diego.
So much has happened between here and my first sight of the boat but there has been a clear take away already. Sailing is twice as expensive, three times as slow and four times as sociable as planned. These things all tie in of course since when you're meeting people it's invariably with drinks and not boat working tools in your hands. But what it has meant for us is that we have met more people, spent more money, and travelled less far than we ever would have guessed. This has made for an incredibly rewarding, yet occasionally frustrating journey thus far. It has been an incredible experience every step of the way.
Our plan from here is to sail south to Ensenada, Mexico this coming week. Then sailing quickly down to Cabo San Lucas before hopefully setting off for the Marquesas islands around mid May.
I'm going to try and keep these posts short since it will make it easier for me to motivate writing a new one but also because no one reads big blocks of text on the Internet. I will be posting more details about the trip until now and then hopefully keeping up with how things are going from here on out!
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