Life is constantly a Risk Vs Reward analysis, and that is most certainly the case when you’re crossing a big ocean in a small boat.…

We left Complexity on a hook and went ashore to check in to customs and immigration. Their crew list was noted with my outbound flight…

We left Mindelo on Saturday December 7th, heading 2,036 miles west across the Atlantic. Our first task was to get away from the Cape Verde…

I first should start with some geography. What and where is Cape Verde? The Europeans all know, it’s on the way from Europe to the…

The four weather models used by Complexity’s crew were not agreeing on the passage between the Canary Islands and Cape Verde. It was an 800…

All too soon it was off to the next leg of this winter adventure. It was a short flight from Faro to Lisbon in Portugal,…

A short plane hop to Philly, an overnight flight to Lisbon, taxi to the train station, 2.5 hour train ride and there I was in…

In 2016, the day after a certain inauguration, there was a huge woman’s march in Washington DC that I went to with my sister. The…

It has been no secret since we came home from our Pacific Loop in 2010 that we were not done blue water sailing. But we…

In 2020 we had an opportunity to buy a slip at Poulsbo Yacht Club and we moved Yohelah to Liberty Bay. We were still figuring…