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Our CPM certifications and burgees, at long last! With Captain Thomas Perry, our Instructor Our tag trip on D’Uphoria went beautifully. We were lucky to have scored three more willing crew members, all CPM graduates, who were also a wonderful … Continue reading
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Even though my own CPM Tag trip was ill-fated, not all was lost. Realizing their own share of the responsibility for the ordeal, Club Nautique agreed to allow Rick and I to test for our CPM Tag in the same … Continue reading
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I AM RETIRED! WOOPIE! My last day of work was April 30. I received a 2 year incentive to retire early, which gave me about 5.4% more of my highest salary each year for the rest of my life! That … Continue reading
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There is nothing quite so glorious to me as the ability to determine exactly where I am in the world by simply measuring the angle between the horizon and the sun or stars a couple of times a day. I … Continue reading
This is always so much fun to go to, and so expensive! We ended up putting money down on a Monitor Wind Vane, a self-steering mechanism we figure is essential for long passages. It takes up a lot of … Continue reading
We don’t own a spinnaker yet, and may not ever own one, but I have always wanted to know how to rig them and how to fly them, so we took a class through Club Nautique on symmetrical spinnakers. We … Continue reading
The first thing that the Tag Instructor noticed the weekend before, were some missing cotter pins on the lifelines. Frankly, neither Rick nor I had spent much time looking at the lifelines. We didn’t really know what to look for, … Continue reading
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On Thursday, March 14, we drove down to Sausalito after work. We were so excited. Rick had been tuning up his navigation skills for weeks, and I had finally gotten through my anxiety to the point where I knew “I … Continue reading
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By this time, all the preparations had been made for our Tag test: the crew was ready, they knew what to bring, all our safety postings and watch schedule postings and meal schedule postings and weather predictions and navigation plans … Continue reading
I got a call first thing Saturday morning from the Club Nautique school director, who confirmed that there was enough wind that I could test for my Crew Overboard (COB) skills. Now normally, this skill would have already been tested for … Continue reading
