San Francisco Bay

<-- Fred under the Golden Gate Bridge

It's been a long road to get here... We started out last year on a shakedown cruise to Alaska. We went from Seattle to Glacier Bay and had a great time and learned a lot about what systems on the boat to upgrade for cruising. We spent this spring in Anacortes Washington completing many of the upgrades and learning a LOT about the boat. Then we sailed the boat out the Straight of Juan De Fuca, and down the coast, under the Golden Gate bridge into Pier 39 (right next to the Sea Lions!) Spent some time enjoying San Francisco and sampling the wonderful food in Sausalito and are now finishing up the last few projects before heading out to the Marquesas.

We expect the trip from San Francisco to the Marquesas islands to take 20 - 30 days, depending on the weather. We've got tons of food and drink and floaty toys loaded onto the boat and we're excited and a bit nervous about the big trip. We've got a professional weather router helping us decide when to go and when not to go, and she's given us nothing but great advice so far, so we hope to have a fairly pleasant trip down.

Many people have asked us to keep them updated on our travels, so we're starting up this blog to try and do just that. We'll probably only update the blog when we are ashore, so it'll be a bit before anything new gets posted, but this will be the spot where it'll go once we get somewhere.

Below are some pictures of our adventures so far....

The boat in Sucia (one of Fred's favorite spots in the San Juan Islands)