California Archives | Sailing Rua Hatu https://www.svruahatu.com/tag/california/ Exploring the world on a Vancouver 36 Sun, 03 Sep 2023 03:38:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.svruahatu.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-SVRuaHatu_Stamp-32x32.png California Archives | Sailing Rua Hatu https://www.svruahatu.com/tag/california/ 32 32 Thanksgiving Travel https://www.svruahatu.com/2022/12/thanksgiving-travel/ https://www.svruahatu.com/2022/12/thanksgiving-travel/#respond Fri, 16 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.svruahatu.com/?p=4036 While Janine and the pets hold down the fort on Rua Hatu at anchor in Puerto Jimenez, Golfo Dulce Costa Rica, I headed out on a cross country, cross continent journey to visit my family in California for Thanksgiving. This was also a re-supply mission and involved returning with over 100 lbs of goodies. The …

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]]> https://www.svruahatu.com/2022/12/thanksgiving-travel/feed/ 0 Our expenses as liveaboards (2022 Update) https://www.svruahatu.com/2022/02/our-expenses-as-liveaboards-2022-update/ https://www.svruahatu.com/2022/02/our-expenses-as-liveaboards-2022-update/#respond Fri, 11 Feb 2022 06:00:00 +0000 https://www.svruahatu.com/?p=1325 This post is an update to an older post from before we cast off, called “Budgeting Expectations“. It has been almost two years since my original post about our budget aboard Rua Hatu. After cruising for a while now, let’s review our spending over the last two years. We spent most of 2020 cruising Washington, …

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]]> https://www.svruahatu.com/2022/02/our-expenses-as-liveaboards-2022-update/feed/ 0 Haulout in Humboldt https://www.svruahatu.com/2021/01/haulout-in-humboldt/ Sat, 30 Jan 2021 00:00:08 +0000 http://svruahatu.home.blog/?p=313 Certainly our journey through the San Juan Islands was a wonderful start to our adventures, but with nearly fifteen years worth of accumulated ablative antifouling below the waterline of Rua Hatu, the most recent of which was already two years old, we were in desperate need of a bottom job before we crossed any significant …

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]]> Offshore and Southbound https://www.svruahatu.com/2021/01/offshore-and-southbound/ Fri, 08 Jan 2021 22:16:47 +0000 http://svruahatu.home.blog/?p=222 In August we finally provisioned and loaded up the boat in Port Angeles and moved to Sekiu to be ready for a suitable weather window to sail down to Eureka, California, where we intended to haul out the boat and repaint the hull. This would be our first offshore experience. Though having sailed at the …

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