Month: September 2017

We had originally planned to join the boat rally  Baja Haha  . We had attended a very informative meeting in Sausalito and have met some nice folks, who were either sailing the Baja themselves, or were looking to join the boat as crew. It was flattering and almost a bit overwhelming on how much we were approached by people looking to accompany us, or other boat owners. We collected contact info and had received a nice Email shortly after from two sisters, who wanted to join us as there first pick.

Later we saw an advertisement on Latitude 38 and we dearly hope, that they have found there boat.

The Yutzy sisters — Cheryl and Machelle — who flew from Pennsylvania . . . to San Diego, specifically to try and get on a Baja Ha-Ha boat. But realizing that the party was a few hundred miles away, the sisters got on a plane, and showed up at Spaulding still wearing their backpacks.

So, you are probably wondering now, why didn’t we give them a chance? Because the next day we happened to get confirmation, that our good friend from Canada wanted to join us. He shared the same interest in taking more time sailing down the coast to avoid overnight sailing as much as possible and give that dog /kid a chance to go ashore more frequently. And to check out that Surf along the way. The fact that he is 6 ‘ 8 kinda rules out space for more people on the boat for a longer period of time.

That’s the reason, why we decided to not join the Baja-Haha, but we still hope, that we meet a lot of them in Baja or down the coast and can hang. Cheers!

We have introduced our dog in the last blog, find it here, now we would like you to know a bit more about the sailboat, Alsager. First of all, it is made out of steel. Which I think is awesome.  It makes me feel more secure simply because it’s less easy to destroy than wood or fiberglass.

” Alsager “, formerly ” Cepheus III “. 1968, built in Holland in Corten steel (Rabbit II design).

The Captain was in correspondence with the daughter of Dick Carter and had the honor of exchanging Emails with the builder Frans Maas, who sadly has passed in a capsize of his yacht during the Light Vessel Race, Belgium this year. Deepest sympathies to his family!

Your yacht is a Dick Carter design, better known as RABBIT II. Fastnet winner overall 1967.

Rabbit II was built in 1967 yard Job No 190.

We built two sister ships: CEPHEUS III Job No 208, the owner was J.Sheppard Poor-USA. At that time he was living in Paris and worked as banker for Chease Manhatten Bank

FER FLEUR Job No 212 owner Mark Wallenberg- Sweden.

J.Sheppard Poor sold Cepheus as she had to much problems with the draft in Chesapeake Bay. Second owner unknown.

Dick Carter draw the lines- and sailplan. I did the steel construction plans and the interior- and deckplan.

At the photos she is looking in very good shape. I think it is CHEPHEUS III

Kind regards.

Frans Maas

Of course we cannot leave him behind. He has adapted to being a real good sport, when it comes to sailing. We hope, he will continue to like it.

Click on the picture below to check it out, it’s special. 🙂

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Thank you all, for the likes and great comments, after we spilled the news about our plan to sail towards Mexico. Please keep them coming, especially since crazy things are happening everywhere. We will be careful and I trust the Captain and his experience!

Preparations have started and this might give you a little idea, what is going on in my head  …  😀

Here we are, planning a new adventure. This one is the biggest one for me, Mats and our dog Noah just yet! The Captain has done it before. Sailing South. Towards Mexico. Since the Captain has quit his job in the Bay area for now, there is not necessary a big rush coming back. We might just stay the winter in Mexico. Go kiting, snorkeling, fishing, learning to make Sushi and checking out the main land.

A big achievement is, that we have found someone, who wants to join us for the ride. He is a good friend from Canada and an experienced Adventurer, Sailor, Surfer, Fisher and fluent in Spanish. He is easy to get along with, a cool guy who just went on his first Burning Man and he is also Giant! 😀

We are very excited, with some mixed feelings for the unknown on my side. Since I am usually up for an adventure, I am also just very curious.

We will try to let you join the craziness as much as we can. It might not be easy due to none-existant coverage, so there will probably be longer periods without any updates. You can always check our Facebook page or best subscribe to our youtube channel to get the latest clips. Thanks for sharing the experience with us! ❤

We had a really nice visit from the Captain’s cousin with some of his Family from Hamburg and we all went sailing on a gorgeous windy day. We sailed towards the Golden Gate Bridge and like many other summer days, thick fog was rolling in. In addition to that, we were fighting a strong flood trying to get out the gate. There were a lot of boats around us this Saturday, but no whales to be seen. We turned around and decided we wanted to sail back into the sun and did a nice loop around Angel Island. Hope you like our video clip as much as our visitors enjoyed the sail.