Is having a Plan B, a fallback plan, contrary to full commitment? In our case I don't think so. If one was to commit to a multi-day passage from port to port and encounter very bad weather once on route, one method for dealing with this would be to heave to, waiting for the sky to clear a bit before proceeding onward. I recently purchased a new book titled 9 Years on the 7 Seas, by Anne E. Brevig. Although…

We received a message the other day from our friend PJ who has been in Australia for the better part of a year. Similar to us PJ sold his house, took a leave from his job and went off to pursue his dream. In this case the dream was to spend a year(?) in Australia doing jiu-jitsu. Because he has been out of the country he was unaware of our plans, as many people living here still are. When I…

"You're crazy. Check that... you're f@#king crazy!" This is what one of our friends recently said about us and our plans. There are plenty of times when we actually believe him! I think that countdown timer to the right must be broken as it appears to be ticking by way too quickly. The amount of stuff that we need to get sorted some days seems insurmountable. Our positive attitude prevails at most times though, or at least we are good…

Moving quickly to the top of the Frequently Asked Question list: "Do you have a boat yet?" Check the FAQ page for the answer. On the bright side several more PDQs turned up on PDQ36.com. One of them is in California. Maybe we'll just have to start on the west coast and head down to Mexico! Here we are in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico at Land's End during a 2007 vacation.

Being relatively new to the whole blogging thing I wasn't clear on the benefits of "Tagging" posts. I understand now that this helps readers more easily track down entries which are of interest to them. Sooo... here we are going back post by post and adding relevant tags. Please bear with us while we are "under construction." :) Here is another nice pic of the PDQ 32 Katana, this time in the water.

I read recently how someone felt that circumnavigating the globe had been done so many times it was hardly even worth getting worked up about anymore. When you consider that back in 1968, without GPS, chart plotters and roller-furling head sails, they were even then looking for bigger and more exciting challenges. Several years prior the first single-handed circumnavigation had been completed. It was because of this that the idea of a non-stop, single-handed race around the world was conceived.…