Tag Archives: Sailing

Marooned Sailor’s Lament

Posted by on March 28, 2012 at 1:27 pm.

The following is a guest post. The author is my past self. In many ways this essay was the first Tidal Life post, though years passed between writing it and beginning to publish this blog. I share it now because in it I wrote about my hope for the future – and the future has [...]

Two ways to get ready for spring sailing: Sailboats for Sale

Posted by on February 25, 2012 at 10:48 pm.

Spring is just around the corner, with sailing season right behind. Are you ready? You say you don’t have a boat to sail this spring? Well I can fix that. I’ve got three and and can only keep one. So two of the Tidal Life sailboats are for sale – Nameless and Eternal Project. Nameless, [...]

Scenes from the Seattle Boat Show

Posted by on February 5, 2012 at 6:26 pm.

Boat Shows are Nothing New, but This Year it was an Education We’ve been to more boat shows than I can count. Our first child was born the morning after we attended an in the water boat show on Lake Union. She received a marine influenced name. This year’s show though, was the very first [...]

Water Photo of the Week: Announcing Tidal Life Afloat

Posted by on January 11, 2012 at 9:32 pm.

Regarding Launch Dates One of the categories for the new improved Tidal Life will be Tidal Life Afloat, lots more stuff about boats, boating, sails, sailing and getting places via the water. Above is a shot of where I’ll be writing from … though I hope she’ll be in the water at some point. Which [...]

Sailing on Adventuress – Part 3, with cookies

Posted by on June 30, 2010 at 3:07 pm.

When an event starts with a safety talk there’s a good possibility that things could go sideways. Sure enough, as soon as we passengers were educated in one hand for the ship etc., Captain Evans went on to explain that getting started on our sailing afternoon was not going to be as easy as we’d [...]

Sailing on Adventuress – Part 2

Posted by on June 24, 2010 at 12:10 am.

  Adventuress is a beautiful vessel, long and sleek and ship shape. For detail mongers, she’s a Gaff Topsail Two-masted Schooner measuring 133 feet from the tip of her bowsprit to the up tilted crown of her stern … for which there is probably a more accurate and saltier term. Her rig stands 110 feet [...]

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