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Leaving SoCal

Everything changes now. It’s colder. The water is rougher. The weather can be more severe and change quickly.

Fortitudine Vincimus

Spurred on by a cause as well as by the family motto of legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton— “By endurance we conquer” —Matt Rutherford sailed into the history books with his epic, nonstop solo odyssey around the Americas. From our July 2012 issue.

Hurricane Season 2012

June 1st marks the beginning of the North Atlantic hurricane season. Don Street has a collection of articles to help you prepare.

Consumer Fatigue

We’re back in the U.S. and we’re spending money like drunken sailors…well, we’ve spent very little on booze and none in brothels, but we’re spending lots. Neither of us enjoys it.

125 Miles To Windward

You often hear folks claim that the trip from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas is so easy that anyone can make it on a 55-gallon drum. Of course, this means it is an inherently difficult passage when heading the other direction.

Vagabundos Del Mar

There is no reason we must leave. We just want to go someplace else, see something else. I guess this is wanderlust.

Why The Radical Life Change?

In early 2006, after our second daughter, Frances, was born, I had the mother of all epiphanies: we should quit our jobs, sell everything, buy a boat, and sail around the world.

Leaving SoCal

Everything changes now. It’s colder. The water is rougher. The weather can be more severe and change quickly.

Fortitudine Vincimus

Spurred on by a cause as well as by the family motto of legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton— “By endurance we conquer” —Matt Rutherford sailed into the history books with his epic, nonstop solo odyssey around the Americas. From our July 2012 issue.

Hurricane Season 2012

June 1st marks the beginning of the North Atlantic hurricane season. Don Street has a collection of articles to help you prepare.

Consumer Fatigue

We’re back in the U.S. and we’re spending money like drunken sailors…well, we’ve spent very little on booze and none in brothels, but we’re spending lots. Neither of us enjoys it.

125 Miles To Windward

You often hear folks claim that the trip from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas is so easy that anyone can make it on a 55-gallon drum. Of course, this means it is an inherently difficult passage when heading the other direction.

Vagabundos Del Mar

There is no reason we must leave. We just want to go someplace else, see something else. I guess this is wanderlust.

Why The Radical Life Change?

In early 2006, after our second daughter, Frances, was born, I had the mother of all epiphanies: we should quit our jobs, sell everything, buy a boat, and sail around the world.

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