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Big News

So after nearly 20 years, and 53,000 miles under our keel, we’ve decided to swallow the anchor, as we say in the cruising community.

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From Victoria to Sullivan Bay, B.C.

Month One of this cruising season has flown past us in the blink of an eye.

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Catching Up

How time flies when you fail to keep your blog current! So let’s remedy that, shall we?

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The Great Alaskan Pajama Party

1964 was the year I graduated from Taft High School in Woodland Hills, CA. An unofficial class ballot indicated I was least likely to succeed. I played football and tennis, surfed, and goofed off.

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Making Memories

Val and I have always thought that it was better to build memories rather than just acquire stuff. When we started cruising in 2006, we realized that the boat was a great tool that allowed us to get to remote places, and with friends and family, to experience things together that would be exciting and […]

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Prince william sound with tamara and johnny

Last season we didn’t have time to entertain guests. But we’re making up for that this year! Our friends Tamara and Johnny from Seattle came to spend a week with us exploring Prince William Sound.

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Homer to valdez 2023

On April 20, we and our two cats flew from Bellingham WA to Homer AK. Three flights + two cats = long day!

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Japan to alaska

So it’s been a while. QUITE a while, in fact. I might have made a blog post last spring, all about how we were getting ready to get the Buffalo out of Japan, finally, and on to Alaska for the summer cruising season. You might have noticed that this did not happen.

Buffalo Nickel on the Market

Buffalo Nickel is an FPB 64, the seventh of an innovative range of power boats designed to make both long distance passages and leisurely intervals at anchor in safety and comfort. There are only eleven of them on the water. Since her initial splash in 2013, she has taken us from New Zealand to Thailand, […]

Our Big News

It’s not new-news, because it’s a choice we made last spring, while we were aboard our boat in Thailand. But the decision did cause us to jettison our plan of making our way to Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, via Japan’s inland sea followed by a passage to the Aleutians. Instead, we turned about, scooted […]