Windborne in Puget Sound

It's a rainy day here in the San Juan Islands... a perfect day for eggrooms. Whoa - what's that? Eggrooms is a recipe that I ...

Aroma Diffuser Why didn't I think of this before? It lasts nearly forever and works beautifully!  Just be careful not to use a lo...

If you are a liveaboard (or near-liveaboard, as we are now), then your marina is your neighborhood.  When we moved Eolian from Shilshole Ba...

The great wheel of the seasons has turned.  The Earth is now at the 21:00 position in its orbit (yeah, I know it's arbitrary, but that...

Sixteen or seventeen years ago,when Jane was walking along the boardwalk at Shilshole, something tiny and yellow caught her eye.  She picked...

The Green Bag From 1997 until 2013 we kept Eolian at the Shilshole Bay marina in Seattle.  During this time she served as our Sea...

Echo Bay sunset Transitioning to retirement is not an event... it is a process. And at this stage of the process, we have discovered t...

As I look out the window this morning, just before dawn, I am struck by how blessed we are to be able to live this way.  Yes, it is chill...

We're sailors, right?  Wind is our means of movement, our propulsion.  We know how our boats respond to it in all of its vagaries.  ...

Here's something that you probably don't think about when you're living ashore...  The weather forecast has some decide...

When we are at anchor, a major part of the charm of the experience is the peace that the situation provides.  After the crowded hustle and b...

As I type this on Sunday, we are at anchor in Port Blakely, on our 25 th day off the dock so far this year. That's an amazing statist...

Raining at anchor in Port Madison When you live aboard, you live aboard in the sunshine, and you live aboard in the rain.  It isn't...

Fuel tank repaired?  Check . Oil changed?  Check. Battery water topped off?  Check Anchor windlass tested?  Check. Engine zincs cha...

Mike and Rebecca of Zero to Cruising (picture swiped from their blog, because it is so perfect) Living here nearly on the 48th parallel, in...

Sleeping bags for bedding Last nite, when we got back to Eolian after a long Christmas absence, neither Jane nor I felt up to tackling ...

All is well here on Eolian , in this Christmas season, tho there is no snow here at sea level like there was in 2004. A blessing perhaps, bu...

If you have been reading this blog, you already know that marine heads are different from household toilets in several meaningful ways, e...

Today there was a most important convergence: It was not raining, and I was home while it was light. So I took another look at the mast bo...

Humans evolved on this planet. One inevitable consequence of this is a that we each have several internal clocks, timed to the rhythms of...