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The weather is getting cooler as Halloween approaches, fall is in the air, and I have weekends off again.  We took full advantage of the situation Saturday and Sunday….  Since Corpus has some neat destinations you can reach in a few hours, our little crew cast off just before noon, sailed to Port Aranasas and was docked […]

 When you first buy a boat… new owners have an overwhelming desire to add or subtract equipment in an effort to make the boat exactly what they were looking for during that super fun phase of boat ownership “the search”…  We were no different, our first makeover was our most expensive because we made all the repairs AND […]

The passage home included a crew change.  Three friends from the Bay Yacht Club drove my car down and Linda drove it back home.  As Linda loaded the car for home, the four of us prepped SYL for the offshore run.  Crew arrived shortly after lunch on Saturday.  I had pizza delivered for the night and tomorrow’s lunch.  […]

We continued our vacation on South Padre Island with friends that drove in for the holiday.  “Sea Ranch Marina” hosted us well…  As is frequently the case because of our width – we were on the tee head.   However the docks are only 7 slips or so long so a walk to the tee head is not the chore […]

The perfect day….. huh!!!?  I sailed all day long and never took the dock lines off the cleats at sea Ranch Marina SPI.   Hmmmmm you say…how did you do that!  Here is the itinerary for the perfect day for a Tuesday on South Padre Island:  I woke up at 9:30AM to a cabin on […]

Day 3: Monday   We left Port Mansfield at 8:30 on flat calm water.  We motored the full 30 miles from Port M into South Padre Island.  The only help the Yamahas got was from the jib.  There was not enough wind to raise the main.. but it was over the port beam so I […]

Day 2 of Laguna Madre We woke up around 6:00am to high winds, the standing rigging was singing to us.. dark clouds, and lightening all around.  The winds can be impressive in this part of Texas.  I suspect we had winds close to 60 miles per hour during the height of the storm.  I love […]

 Laguna Madre     We left Corpus Christi Municipal marina at the crack of 10 or thereabouts…..  The plan was to get up early and strike out for points South but we stayed up late / went to happy hour with Mark and Julie at Landry’s Friday night so we weren’t perfectly fresh come early […]

I like this place….  The water is nice, there are several very nice sailing destinations within a 2 to 3 hour sail.  Again my only downer is the distance home. The July 4th week will be a big sail for us.  I say big sail… we are used to sailing locally now so a 150 mile […]

What do they all have in common?  I guess if I’d put Selena in the title too – more people may be able to guess what the group of names have in common, but I felt like that would make it too easy.  All the people in the title sprang from my present work location… […]