Category: Blind Sailing
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Touring Monterey…While Fixing Luna Moth
After a long sail to Monterey, on which the autopilot broke, and a rough night at anchor, we settled into Monterey’s municipal marina to recover a little. With Luna Moth secure on an end tie, we decided to not look at our mechanical problems for 24 hours and instead go for a walk around town…
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South to Monterey
After about a week in Half Moon Bay, we found a good weather window to sail to our next destination, Monterey. What time of day to leave was a little tricky as the days were getting shorter, morning fog and fishing made leaving early difficult, and we didn’t want to arrive at our next anchorage…
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Shake Down-Part One
After three years of working on Luna Moth, and completing over 280 projects ourselves, we finally were able to start our shake-down process. While there will always be a to-do list, we felt that at this point things were “done enough”, as Lisa puts it, to take our girl out of her slip to explore…
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Blind Chef in the Galley
I have always loved food and cooking. However, in my classes on adapted cooking as a blind person they didn’t teach me how to cook on a boat in a tiny galley where your home and your stove could be moving. I have learned a lot about how to live on a boat over the…
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Blind on Board
Let’s live on a cruising sailboat she said. Let’s do all of the maintenance and repairs ourselves she said. I had no idea what that meant a handful of years ago, but now living aboard our Outbound 46 blue-water cruising boat Luna Moth full-time, I have a much better idea. Almost three years ago my…
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