Witch’s Rock and Ollie’s Point Overnight Surf Tours
I remember the first time I saw “Endless Summer II”. It was 1995, I was a 19 year-old, surfed-obsessed, college student, studying at Humbodlt State. The movie was playing in our commons hall and as I sat wedged between a group of drunk frat boys and a group of hippies smoking weed, I was lifted […]
Boat Buying Adventure-The Voyage- BVI to Panama
Over the course of the next month, Chris and Karen at BVI Yacht Sales coordinated inspections and paperwork. Trish, the Tasmanian Captain of Serendipity for the last 20 years, helped get repairs done. We continued to be incredibly impressed with the professionalism of the BVI Yacht Sales Crew. We were after all buying Serendipity sight […]
Boat Buying Saga Part 4:March-April
If you have read to this point, you are probably shaking your head and thinking-’red flags, red flags, read the freaking flags!’. Yes, our blinders were knocked right off when the third owner of Aningha appeared and even though it was going to be a great deal, we had had enough. After a year of […]
Boat Buying Saga Part 3: Feb-April- flamingo costa rica fishing charters
Chapter 3 Feb.-April We looked and looked for another boat and there was nothing for us in Costa Rica. We started to consider bringing a boat in, but with a 30% importation tax in Costa Rica, in addition to the cost to sail a boat here, we just didn’t have the money or time for […]
The Boat Buying Saga Part 2: October-January
Names have been changed to protect the innocent….meaning me. Blog 2 October-January After 5 months of trying to see the boat and negotiating a price, we now had a deal on “Anghinga”. The time was perfect, it was now October and the low season was on us. If we got the boat that month we […]
Boat Buying Saga Part1: June-September
I have changed names, not to protect the people in this story, but to protect myself. I have a hard time shopping for clothes. I have many fashionista friends and once in awhile they will pitch the idea of keeping up with the style of the day, ditching the jean skirt, buying really expensive workout […]
Sailing Costa Rica Blog
It was not that long that I didn’t even know what a “blog” was. Like the rest of us, when a new techno word comes out I ignore it for awhile until I can’t stop hearing words like “hash tag, tweet, blog” then I call me 18 year old brother. “A blog is like an […]
Sailing Tours in Costa Rica
As one might imagine there is a whole vast amount of “richness” off the coast of Costa Rica. Most travelers have the same type of experiences: a zipline in Arenal, a surf lesson at Playa Grande and maybe even a booze cruise, sunset boat tour out of Tamarindo. However, if you really want to experience […]
Whale Watching in Costa Rica
There is nothing more magical than seeing a whale in its natural habitat. We have had the pleasure of whale watching and sharing this experience with many guests on our boat. Personally, swimming in the ocean with a mother whale and her calf is up there with birthing my children. The boat dropped me off […]