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I feel like we are moving towards the equator at the pace of a dying lizard that is dragging its body across the sand and towards the shade of a palm tree, so that it can die with a shred of dignity. But the catch is, whatever is killing the...

Yesterday I received a message from someone. They wrote, “Be careful carrying on conversations with other vessels out there. They could be outlaws.” If we are on a collision course I gotta talk to the other vessel. Plus, if I befriend a pirate or an outlaw or a villain, won’t...

The wind is screaming. She screams, “You said you wanted me. Here I am, baby.” I scream back, “I wanted you, but not like this! You’re drunk. And you’re a mean drunk. On moonshine you lack all control! And when you have no control, I have no control! Look at...

All the lights are back on in the heavens. We didn’t see them for two days. I wrote them a love letter in their absence and send it out over the sky waves. “Dear night and day. Everything is unbearable without your light. Without you I feel, at the same...

Today the sea, she whispers. She’s soft and velvet. “Aloha, buttercup,” I say. Today is not like yesterday, there is nothing ominous in the sky. And I already forgot yesterday anyway. Yesterday is just fog and flames and fangtooth fish. Yesterday is a faded photograph of a distant relative, whose...

It was a dark and stormy night in the Tropic of Cancer. Drop. The sea was a swirl of water and rain and prayers. Rain. Hard. Like ice. Falling. Drop. Lightening filled the horizon. Flash. More Lightening. Flash. Flash. Flash. All around. Flash. Can’t see. Drenched. Crash. The waves are...

Yesterday, the sky turned white all around us and frogs started falling down from the sky. We couldn’t see anything in any direction. No blue sky. No honey-colored sun. No highway to heaven. That’s unusual because normally you can see that the magician in the sky is hiding the sun...

I have been dreaming but I can’t remember them for more than the time it takes sand to fall through your fingers. And thats not long enough to write them down. All I remember of last nights dream is that I was in world made of clouds and people were...

We are champagne sailing now. On a close reach with breezes in the mid-teens and a tiny swell. Cheers baby-cakes. Cheers to the dolphins and the clouds and the sun and the salt and the sharks. Cheers to all the other sailors somewhere at sea. Cheers to the lighthouse keepers...

The squalls have been doing us dirty and right now there ain’t enough wind to blow a dandelion seed. Sometimes, when there is light wind, I feel like a ballerina in a box. You open me up and inside I’m just be twirling circles with arms and legs stuck in...

I thought for the longest time that yesterday was Sunday. It doesn’t really matter. The day. Out here I don’t need to measure the world by days of the week. Just hours. It’s nice to loose track of something like that. It’s midnight now. I look up. I look down...

The sea is deep blue but when the sun hits the crests of the waves I can see aquamarine. Color has always been the biggest illusion of this world. An objects color is a reflection of the only color an object can’t absorb. So actually doesn’t it make more sense...

We’re straight cruising through squalls over here. 32 knots of wind. Mast shaking. Everything wet. Big swell in short sets. Spray over bow. Pelted by waves. Prims leaking. Food hammocks breaking. And my foul weather gear aka foulies, which are supposed to keep me dry, are keeping me wet. Still...

At the fuel dock in Kona, I saw a sea turtle that must have been 5,000 years old. He was the size of a flying saucer and had barnacles growing all over him. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but a dude told me that this type of...

Sava and I had decent wind when we left Lahaina. We came quick upon Molokini. It’s a half-sunken volcanic crater in the shape of a new moon. It was never our intention to stop there, but I dig anything with a crescent shape, so we did. I didn’t have to...

The morning of our sleepless night we jumped into the water to have a tea party. It didn’t last long because only one turtle accepted our invitation and he was too young to have an in-depth conversation with. The turtle asked me, “What do you see when you look at...

Ok I’m gonna fess up, the day we left Molokai we made a mistake. It was a big one that took 5 or so hours to fix.  It involved the engine and coolant and oil and sleepy brains that were still in the realm of the subconscious.  And that’s what held...

I am not just one person, inside of me there are a million Me’s and I don’t always know which one is going to come crawling forth to the surface and spit out of my mouth.  Right now the me coming out is a wild strawberry. She is a rebel...

The day before I left Waimea Bay, the spinner dolphins fell from the heavens. They came right up to me and Juniper and   pirouetted out of the water. I swam with them, and we talked about the clouds, and played fetch with seashells. The dolphins told me that their favorite kind...

I’m a sea gypsy now. Living on the hook and harvesting rain. The sea is my sanctuary and I need nothing but air.  I shout to the wind, “Honey, I’m a seed and you are the wind, which way are we going today?”  I don’t really know where I’m going...

Sometimes I wish I was a starfish, life would be a lot easier without a brain or a heart. Just lying there, clinging to coral, and stoned on the sea. And if you were a shark or a manta ray or an Alaskan king crab, you could eat one of...