	Cruising Blog I originally wrote this in blog format for a class I was taking using WordPress. Blog format is a boon for those that like to write as well as those that keep up with current events. I'm just too lazy so, I tossed everything in here with my collection of other odds and ends. Unlike most cheap fictional accounts though, this actually happened. As usual the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Unfortunately, no one is innocent here. Without further ado... It happens to all of us at some point or another. The rugrat, having made us wish the only late night game we ever played was “hit it with a hammer”, had finally turned eighteen. My job which had me galavanting all over North America teaching chemists how to use x-ray spectroscopy software was moving to Madison, Wisconsin. My wife, the admiral, had that “find me a bell tower and a hunting rifle” look in her eye that comes after fifteen years as an er nurse. We sold the house, snuck off in the middle of the night when junior wasn’t looking and moved aboard our boat, the “WE’RE HERE II”. Over the next three years, we pretty much rebuilt everything from the keel up… Under Sail - Santa Barbara Channel

Cruising Blog

I originally wrote this in blog format for a class I was taking using WordPress. Blog format is a boon for those that like to write as well as those that keep up with current events. I'm just too lazy so, I tossed everything in here with my collection of other odds and ends. Unlike most cheap fictional accounts though, this actually happened. As usual the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Unfortunately, no one is innocent here. Without further ado...

It happens to all of us at some point or another. The rugrat, having made us wish the only late night game we ever played was “hit it with a hammer”, had finally turned eighteen. My job which had me galavanting all over North America teaching chemists how to use x-ray spectroscopy software was moving to Madison, Wisconsin. My wife, the admiral, had that “find me a bell tower and a hunting rifle” look in her eye that comes after fifteen years as an er nurse. We sold the house, snuck off in the middle of the night when junior wasn’t looking and moved aboard our boat, the “WE’RE HERE II”. Over the next three years, we pretty much rebuilt everything from the keel up…

Under Sail - Santa Barbara Channel