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Dear Prudence, won’t you come out to play
Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day

The sun is up, the sky is blue
It’s beautiful and so are you

The sea is waiting Dear Prudence

My Shorts Fit Better, and the Dog is Still Alive

As you can probably imagine, we're going through a monumental shift in our lives, individually and together. Leaving the Bay Area was a huge shift in thinking, because we'd both lived there a long time and we have a tight group of friends there. Our sailing community...

The Loose Plan, Subject to Change

I've had a few people recently ask me what the plan now that we own our cruising boat. The loose plan as of now is to go back to the Bay Area in mid to late October, get the boat ready to move aboard (things like the fridge and freezer need to be fixed for example),...

I Love the Pee En Dub

I really do love living up here. This is the first time I've lived in the Pacific Northwest after having lived all of the country, though my parents had lived here for a while before so I used to visit a lot. Too young to really appreciate it, and it's a totally...

What’s In a Name, Anyway?

The name is Prudence. It's always been Prudence. Pru402 is now Prudence, Mid Pru was Prudence, and Old Pru was Prudence. The name arrived when David arrived, and he says that as long as he's wanted a big boat to live on, he's wanted to name it Prudence. Why? "It's a...

Boom or Bust

The boat we just bought has a top priority list of things that need to be done on her, and managing these projects from far away isn't easy. It's made much easier though working with people who have become our friends from the last many many years of living in the Bay...

If Not Now, When?

It was a dark and stormy night... Not really, but sounded good. So there we were awake at 230a on the Friday morning after we closed on the boat purchase. We already had a long list of stuff that we wanted to change on the boat. We had seen our friends who live on a...

Testing Testing Testing…

Post Persuasion Equation discussions, we make an offer on the boat in Emeryville CA. I cannot believe after all of this, after traveling to South Carolina, after living in Port Townsend, we're making an offer on a boat that's in our previous backyard, but that's how...

The Persuasion Equation

Back in 2018 when we first started looking at buying a Sabre 36, David's brother Mike told us about "Persuasion", a 1989 Sabre 36 that was located in Manchester, MA. This boat was beautiful. All lines were led to the cockpit, the canvas was new, the upholstery was...

Sailing on the ICW

In mid-May 2021, we flew to Charleston. We had made an accepted offer on a 2001 Sabre 402 that was located in Hilton Head, SC, and we were going back there to look at her. This trip was two-fold: David grew up in Charleston, and hadn't been back in many years. And I...

What is otherwise known as “the Perfect Boat”

David and I have had the pleasure of "rebuilding" two boats together. 1978 Islander Freeport 36 ("Old Pru"). This is the boat David had when I met him. Old Pru was boat college if there ever was one. This boat had a lot of issues; a few of them include lots of...