Pacific Crossing Series

Showering is a luxury when sailing across an ocean…as well as a challenge. This special event takes patience, balance, and a change in your definition of clean. On our crossing, we had specified shower days- not so few that you couldn’t stand the smell of your crew mate, but few enough you couldn’t get away from […]

Food tastes better when sailing! There’s something about being on a boat that seems to make all food taste incredible- at times, even something that is simple is suddenly an amazing dish. Maybe it’s due to the challenges of cooking at sea- maybe it’s that salty air- but come dinnertime…life is good! Cooking at sea […]

In April 2009, just two years after learning to sail, I headed off on a Pacific Ocean crossing from Mazatlán, Mexico to Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. I had been asked to crew by a couple heading off around the world and they preferred there to be 4 sailors aboard on ocean crossings for […]

Upon arriving in Mazatlán, I was informed that I was a Pollywog. I had no idea what that meant, but it sounded bad and I knew I didn’t want to be one. My crewmates told me they were all Saddlebacks- that sounded much better. So here I was, the youngest by 15 years, the most […]