While we’re waiting for hurricane season to officially end for a southward move, we have two things on our minds. Training aboard and outfitting Eliana for her first full season. San Diego is the perfect spot to do both. Now for the d…
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#25 Christening
Drum roll. This is the moment we knew would come, but can hardly believe is here. Eliana’s Christening. It’s not that she hasn’t been dedicated a thousand times in our own prayers, but this time it’s public. A dear friend once t…
#24 Catalina Island
Hello from beautiful Catalina Island! The last two weeks have been so full of activity from dawn until dark, there was absolutely no time for me to write. It’s been one first after another, and as you may presume, we have taken delivery of …
#23 August Break
We left Eliana on August 1 and drove back to Parkville. Did it in two days of driving which is pretty remarkable. If things don’t work out with Eliana, we could have a great future as a long-haul driving team!
Two months in California went…
#22 Live! From Eliana
And now, from the pilot house of Eliana comes the 22nd installment of Eliana’s Journal … finally. At least if we can get the Internet running consistently! What with routers, servers, WIFI amplifiers, firewalls, switches and all the other…
#21 Family Time!
Oh, how fun it is to have family time, yes even more than usual. Amazing how being apart for a few weeks changes things. Maybe the absence makes us appreciate more the time we are together. Maybe it’s a different environment. Fo…
#20 Commissioning Update
Commissioning a boat is a process of elimination. Much of the effort is designed to reduce the number of post delivery problems as possible. The first few months of cruising will expose what was present all along, but went undetected. …
#19 Fourth Of July
Fourth of July in Dana Point is a riot!! It’s the biggest party of the year for as long as anyone can remember. The fireworks (paid for by the city) climax occurs off a barge in Dana Point Harbor, so the 2,000 boat harbor becomes the epice…
Captain Change
You may recall our February announcement naming Capt. Stuart Sheppard as our teaching captain on Eliana. Everything seemed to be on track until recently when we received a call from Stuart letting us know he couldn’t do it because of a change in …
Sweet Charlotte
Thanks to all for the questions and comments left at our web site. I think I’ll post answers at the end of this entry. If you would like to post questions and comments for public viewing, please go directly to the journal and scroll down to…
