October 6, 2026
WRITING & VOYAGES
The logbook.
Recent essays and the historical record of a life under sail.
From the voyage archive
Newest to oldest, by original publication date.
- Coast Guard Boardings and Your Fourth Amendment Rights, Part 1
- Bad Things Come In Threes
- My New Job: Keeping Sausalito Salty
- Riding the Tides in Baja
- Donald Crowhurst Movie Update
- Metal Tank Repair with a Shop Vac
- Tank repair
- Charge!: Chargers, Plugs, and Receptacles On Boats
- Eight Bells: Bill Ficker
- Forepeak
- V-Berth
- V-Berth Rebirth (with strong opinions about drawers on boats)
- Marine Carpentry for Dummies
- Advanced Electrical: Diodes
- Diodes
- New Chainplates
- Electrical Basics: Bus Bars
- Boat Command CONNECT! Meets Smoke Alarm
- Boat Monitoring
- Smoke Alarm
- The Truth About Watermaker Membranes…
- New Cooling System on Perkins 4.236
- Perkins
- The Future Is Here: Bottom Cleaning Nanobots
- Global Ship Traffic Via Satellite and Terrestrial AIS
- Human Arm Found Floating At Olympic Sailing Venue
- Tough French Cruiser Shot, Stabbed, Bashed, and Robbed off St. Croix
- After Twenty Years, Naval Academy Brings Back Celestial Navigation
- Celestial Navigation
- Land Yachting Through Patagonia
- That Sinking Feeling off the Baja Coast
- Knowing Your Boat: The thing nobody ever talks about
- Save Your Boat!: Remote Boat Monitoring and Killer Apps
- New Nomenclature for Lifejackets
- Party Boat Mishap
- Tesla Powerwall
- Tesla’s Powerwall on a boat?
- Sailing Was More Than Respite for Roosevelt and Kennedy, from NY Times
- New Steering Wheel Adventure: Part 3
- Boat Wiring: Distribution Panels and Circuit Protection
- Car *Almost* Falls Off Ferry
- Boat Wiring: Reterminating Cables and Adding Big Fuses
- Sailboat Threading the Needle
- New Steering Wheel Adventure, Part 1
- Sacrebleu!: French frigate Latouche-Tréville
- Cargados Carajos
- Vestas Volvo Ocean Race Wreck: Very Naughty Language!
- Volvo Vestas Wreck
- Distributed Power Systems on an Average Cruising Boat: I say no!
- Centipede
- French Polynesia
- The Worst Critter Ever On My Boat
- Refloating Boats in La Paz - Yay!
- Coast Guard Boardings and Your Fourth Amendment Rights, Part 4: Longer and Legaler
- Cheap LED Strip Lights for Boats
- The Longest, Worst Boat Project Ever (with Blood)
- How to Fix Your Electric Windlass 9 out of 10 Times
- Electrical Basics: Solenoids
- Watermakers A-Go-Go
- Dolphin “Asks” Divers for Help
- Amazing Black and White Underwater Images
- Jessica Rousseau
- Charles Darwin Goes Cruising in Finches, Fossils, and Fuegians
- Orcas at Galiano Island, BC
- No-Nos and Good Practice with Thru-Hulls and Seacocks
- Sailboat Leaves Ala Wai Harbor in Huge Surf
- Persnickety Impeller Pumps
- Provisioning Tricks: Fish Tacos in Chagos
- New Home for Blogging
- Condesa Tsunami
- Condesa Desecrated
- Boatyard Dog
- The Run Over By a Container Ship Story
- Halfway to the Farallons
- Speaking Schedule
- Apocalypse or Bay Cruise?
- Latitude 38 Article
- Wine By Sail
- New Kid In Town
- My Feel Bad/Good Story
- The Trolley Incident
- Blog Neglect
- Made the Paper
- Condesa Sails Under the Golden Gate
- A Behemoth in the Night: Run over by one of man’s largest moving objects
- The Accident Story
- Home Port
- The Sea of Cortez Nine Years Later… By Guest Blogger Elias Terman
- Website
- Finding Crew
- Cabo San Lucas
- A Long and Lonely Thousand Miles
- Technical Difficulties
- The Magic Bus
- Stung!
- Larry Catches Yellow Fever
- Two Counts of Near Miss
- Smart Sharks
- For My Mother
- Leaving Panama
- Leaving Colombia
- Pacific Colombia
- Surfing the Andes
- Condesa Memory
- Stunned in San Francisco
- No Respect
- The Start of the Transpac
- In California
- Home In Lima
- Safely In Callao, Peru
- Shown the Door
- A Genuine Catch-22
- Fiction
- June 12, 2007
- Oops
- Quick update
- June 10, 2007
- Bureaucracy Gone Wild!
- Seafood Lover’s Paradise
- Back at it
- Back In Santiago
- My Nazi Lunch
- Sailing Memories
- Musings on Yacht/Ship Collisions cont.
- More Musings on Ship/Yacht Collisions
- Landfall In Valparaiso
- Roaring Forties part deux
- Pozo Omega
- Argentina
- Good Times In Argentina - Dead Dog
- Good Times In Argentina - Eaten By A Bus
- Good Times In Argentina - Groped By A Man (warning, salty language inside!)
- Good Times in Argentina - Keep Your Nose Out Of Where It Doesn’t Belong
- Good Times In Argentina - My House And Neighborhood
- Puerto Eden
- Isla Topar
- Puerto Mayne
- Caleta Columbine
- Caleta Condesa
- Puerto Profundo
- Stormbound in the Straits of Magellan
- March 26 - Leaving Canal Occasion
- Two Days Out
- Assorted Adventures!
- Condesa’s Voyage
- On Being In The December 2004 Tsunami
- On Cruisers
- On The Cruising Life
- Technology, Worldwide Communications, and The Internet
- On Getting Run Over By A Container Ship
- Photos
- About My Boat
- FAQ
- About Me