Christi will be doing a book signing at West Marine in Point Loma (1250 Rosecrans St, San Diego, CA 92106) from 10:00 – 3:00 this Saturday, May 29th. We were originally also going to do a presentation on the around the world journey, but the presentation has been rescheduled for June 26th at 1:00 pm. We hope to meet some of our blog readers either this Saturday or on June 26th.
We had hoped to keep up real-time postings for the road trip, but it didn’t work out. We’ll post the rest of the highlights soon and do full write ups in the relatively near future. Meanwhile, we wanted to remind everyone that we are speaking at Trawlerfest in Anacortes, WA this weekend. On Friday from 2:30 to 3:30 about our circumnavigation aboard Kosmos. On Saturday we will be doing a joint presentation with Denis and Mary Unstot on adjusting to living aboard. We hope that we will get to meet many blog readers in Anacortes!
Yes, we are way behind on posting, but slowly but surely we are catching up to real time”¦
Thursday, November 26 Over the last month, we have taken Kosmos out a couple of times to the ocean to dump the septic tank and give her some exercise. The first time was uneventful. The second time, a sailboat race was going on. As we headed out to sea, we found ourselves facing literally hundreds of sailboats on their way back in the entrance to the bay. We felt like we were in a living video game as we continually dodged the dozens upon dozens of boats that surrounded us. We were relived when we had completely passed them.
On weeks where we don’t take Kosmos out, Eric runs the various components (engine, wing engine, generator, bow thrusters, etc) while in the slip to keep all the components exercised.
Most days this month it has been Continue reading
Just in case anyone didn’t figure it out, the last post, Reality TV, was an April Fool’s joke. Today’s post has us going backwards in time again to October 2009.
Sunday, October 25th“”This weekend was the Nordhavn Southwestern Rendezvous in Dana Point, CA. It started on Friday evening and went through this afternoon (Sunday).
Eric left work a couple hours early and we made the drive up to Dana Point. With no traffic, it only takes an hour to get there from where we live, but it took a little longer with Friday traffic. We arrived just as the cocktail hour was getting started. We were surprised at Continue reading
Shortly after we completed our circumnavigation, we got a call from a Hollywood production company. The person calling was the assistant to the producer and an avid boater. He had followed our website and thought that our travel stories were fascinating, so he had talked his boss into considering us for a reality TV show. As the assistant explained to us, the new trend in reality TV is not to put people in crazy contrived situations, but to find people who are doing interesting things and simply follow them around. Apparently, the main reason for this trend is it keeps production costs incredibly low. The big question he had for us was: were we up for it? Of course, we said yes.
Knowing that there are a lot of hoops that have to be jumped through to get something like this going, particularly in the current recession, we didn’t let ourselves get too excited about it. We only told a handful of people.
Over the last couple of months, we have gone through a several sets of interviews (including some psychological testing), and contract negotiations. We were grilled about how prepared we were for emergency situations, physically, psychologically and emotionally. We recounted our scary stories about the sunken sailboat, the Java Sea passage, and Stromboli. After each meeting, we expected a call saying “thanks, but no thanks,” but instead got calls saying “Let’s schedule the next meeting.”
When the formalities were completed, it was time to work on a pilot episode. The pilot is Continue reading