About this time last year, my partners, Captain Dan (L) and Dennis Dreith (R), had the opportunity to take an artist and a writer out to Santa Barbara Island. The result was some great paintings and a monstrous article in Sailing magazine’s April 2008 issue. Here we see Cap’n and Dennis beaming with pride at [...]

We made the annual pilgrimage to Jack London Square at the Oakland waterfront this week to see the Strictly Sail boat show. Not only is it the largest sailboat show on the West Coast. It is the only show out here that brings out all the goody and accessory purveyors, worldwide charter companies and more. [...]

Captain Dan and I spent the morning with our fleet of eight boats getting them inspected for 2008. We do this each year to make sure we are conformed to USCG standards. Here we see USCG volunteer inspector Rafael Francke applying the inspection sticker to Imagine, signifying that the inspection has occurred. Mr. Francke was [...]