“Some years ago, having little or no money in my purse and nothing particular to keep me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.”

~Ishmael, Moby Dick, by Herman Melvile, 1851

Has so little changed in 150 years? Finding myself unattached and wandering in the international technology arena, I sold my Victorian-era home, built in 1900 by a sea captain four blocks from San Francisco Bay, and went searching for a boat of my own. read more

Cartagena Update

A few weeks after I’d transited the Canal with Steve Cherry’s able assistance, he made the ocean passage going the other way, from Colón to Cartagena, on his 41 ft. ketch. He barely made it, as his boat’s diesel engine surged and sputtered to a stop just outside the anchorage at the Club Nautico.

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Born into a military family, John Huetter first sailed at age nine, during long summers on the Mediterranean. The boat was 12 ft. long, wooden, with a single canvas sail and hemp rigging. Nearly fifty years later, he went sailing again, this time on a cruising catamaran, from the U.S. East Coast to the West Coast stopping by the Bahamas, Caribbean, South America, en route to the Panama Canal, Central America and Mexico.

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