S/V Spindrift

Passing Through

I dropped Sarah at the airport in Palermo this morning. She is flying to Boulder to…
Shore Party No. 4: Favignana, and the Ghost Factory

Exploring party THE REASON We spent four nights on Favignana, and this was our last day…
Shore Party No. 3: Favignana, and the Rib Eye

Liberty THE REASON A rolly night at anchor off Isola dell’Ogliastra in Sardinia, then thirty hours…
If I Can’t Be Here

On why I keep coming back A sundowner in the cockpit of S/V Spindrift, at anchor…
Thinking of Home

Thinking of all of you back home tonight as you deal with the aftermath of the…
Cold Pork Chop

Nine days with the Lustys, Ajaccio to Olbia It’s Sunday morning church bells ringing and we’re…
Shore Party No. 2: Bonifacio, and the Taxi Home

A Watering party THE REASON Bonifacio’s harbor is a limestone slot with a medieval town on…
What the Mountain Does to a Mistral

Cannes to Calvi, and why we’re still on the mooring It’s 0700 local, 0500 UTC. Sarah…
Leaving the Dock

What forty-one years of managing other people’s risk taught me about everyone except myself. September 14,…
Shore Party No. 1: Lourmarinand the Three Happiest Men in the Luberon

Watering Party Sailors have always gone ashore in parties. A watering party for supplies, an exploring…
Ben

Four summers of hot dogs, and I still don’t know what this is Editor’s note: I promised…
Meet S/V Hairball, Our New Cat.

The math of fleet management, and why it never adds up. I’m sitting at the house…
On the Hard

Grand Finale -June 4 to 11 I’m sitting in the Star Alliance lounge at CDG, on…
Two Good Hands

Palma de Mallorca to Cap d’Agde, June 2–4, 2026 Thibaut arrived at the boat in Pantalan…
Heading Home.

The family leg, by the numbers. Sarah, Hannah, and Sam fly out of Palma on Friday…