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Continue reading →: Let’s go East, lets make that West (8/24).Finding that the river east of Portland was a little narrower and shallower than we were comfortable with we decided to head back west to get more sailing time and less motoring time (we are very spoiled having our boat in St. Helens, it really is a fantastic spot on…
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Continue reading →: Running aground and other fun stuff (8/22)So after a bit of a slow start we left the marina around 9:30 Sunday (yesterday) morning. The Shawnee left at the same time and was headed in the same direction so we both motored and motorsailed (very light wind) along at about the same pace. After about an hour…
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Continue reading →: A Happy Birthday (8/21)Saturday (August 21st) was a great day, it was my birthday and the first day of a ten day vacation 🙂 Devon gave me the coolest gift ever – a sextant! Now I get to update my “to do” list now that “learning to navigate” is in progress. It is…
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Continue reading →: Boat ParkingI may have mentioned previously that when we bought ‘Imi Loa we had zero “big” boat experience (we had been sailing a 14 foot Javelin for a few months but had no other boating experience) so we were completely new to boat handling, docking, etc. Although logically I know driving…
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Continue reading →: Searching for ‘Imi Iki (Our Dinghy/Tender)Our first tender? Of course we knew this was not an option, it was left over from our lake trips and car camping days. Sold on Craigslist. Another leftover from lake fishing, still not an option. It only seats one, and is difficult to row in the wind. Sold on…
Welcome!
We are Devon & Rowan and this site is about our life aboard our sailboat, how we got here, and where we hope to go in the future…
We started our boating life in the Portland Oregon area with an Ericson Independence 31 before moving to the SF Bay area. In 2013 we purchased and moved aboard Casita, our Hans Christian 33. In October 2024 we finally cast off the dock lines and headed south. We are currently cruising Mexico with plans to do a Pacific crossing.
We aren’t retired and we aren’t wealthy so we will cruise until we run low on funds or low on fun and then look at our options. Please join us for this next phase of our adventures together.
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