So, having always loved the water and taking any opportunity to be on it as far back as I can remember,
Aboard Grandpa's 26' Cabin Cruiser when I was 8
Salsa Lady
I took the plunge (no pun intended) and bought my first boat home in 1999.
Eventually she got named Salsa Lady and several albums ensued over the years of my enjoying living and cruising on her. FINALLY (whew!) after 12 years of trying hard to care for her and 3 years of trying to find her a new owner, I have a buyer who will love her as much as I did and tart her up and make her a happy lady of the delta. Ahoy Salsa Lady – enjoy your next life!
Links to some nice memories: My First Boat Home, Fourth of July 2001, Further Adventures of Salsa Lady
The Pickle Yacht
A couple of years down the road I moved onto a much larger boat so that the cruising boat would be free of things that had to be moved before heading out. Many years later, I’m still here in my floating adobe, a ferro-cement motor sailer called The Pickle Yacht – which as you will discover from the pages at right is in the process of an engine transplant.
More than you ever wanted to know: The Before and After shots – & still a work in progress, 2004 quacky visitors, They returned in earnest in 2005 + see the engine saga including an entertaining video in the links on the right.
Sapphire
And then somewhere around 2003 I went and bought a sailboat! I named her Sapphire and we have enjoyed many a romp an a few unsuccessful races – hey I’m not a great sailor.
Pix: All About Sapphire, The Three Bridges Fiasco 2010 (that’s an annual SF Bay race.)
And now for some photos of boats I do not own!
A day out on the Alma – November 2005
Fireworks on the bay aboard La Dolce Vita 2007
