Author Archives: lewisblevins

If you’ve come this far, and taken it seriously, than you’ve made a lot of progress towards learning to sail. Bareboat classes are something different altogether when compared to the two basic classes. Get your rest. You’ll be tired when this course is over. Trust me. This course prepares you to charter a boat inContinue reading “Bareboat……Club Nautique”

In my opinion, this class is a must after successful completion of the basic keelboat class. Hopefully, prior to signing up for this class, you have spent some time in the Colgate vessels and honed your beginners skills as a sailor. Basic cruising classes are taught over two weekends or else over four consecutive days.Continue reading “Basic Cruising…..Club Nautique”

So, you think you want to learn to sail. Perhaps you’ve been sailing and want to formalize your education and learn to do things correctly. Or, maybe you are new to this avocation. Regardless, basic keelboat classes at Club Nautique are a great start on the journey to what could be a lifetime of adventureContinue reading “Basic Keelboat…..Club Nautique”

This book is superb! The author, the first to circumnavigate the globe vertically, admixes lore, history, geography, meteorology, and ocean characteristics with his retelling of the voyages of mariners who have rounded Cape Horn…..many of them having done so while circumnavigating the globe. I finished this tome with a greater understanding of what it mustContinue reading “Book Recommendation”

I am currently reading and recommend this book. It is extremely well written and chronicles the authors single-handed sailing adventure around the world. It is illustrated with line drawings and photographs. There is plenty to learn about sailing, in general, from his journal entries. The appendix really “knocks it out of the park“ with instructiveContinue reading “Book Recommendation”

I highly recommend Club Nautique, with locations in Sausalito and Alameda. to anyone wishing to learn to sail. The club has a national and international reputation and attracts those wishing to learn to sail from all over the world. I first learned of the Club when I was researching sailing schools in the bay area.Continue reading “Club Nautique”

Here is a link to a short video sailing Skiron in SF Bay mid summer 2019. Those of you familiar with sailing in the San Francisco Bay would recognize the atmosphere and would likely predict that it was August. The music is by Sharon Van Etten.

Towards the end of the summer 2019 I noticed that the caulking between some of the teak slats on Skiron was starting to deteriorate. Push came to shove when I began to notice that black goo was not only getting on my clothes but also on the clothes of those who were joining me onContinue reading “Refurbishing Teak”

Sailboats have it rough. In this part of the country they’re in the water 365 days a year. They ride and fall with the tidal changes. Rock in the waves. Heel in the wind. Bake in the sun. Are rained upon. Become moistened by fog laden with atmospheric pollutants. They’re doused with saltwater on aContinue reading “Cleaning cockpit gelcoat”

I am either the fifth or sixth owner of my sailing vessel Skiron. She has has several prior names having been christened Lindisfarne for most of her time in the water. My friends Annika Koch and Bjorn Christensson of Sweden owned Lindisfarne and have blogged extensively regarding their journeys, adventures, upgrades and more during aContinue reading “If sailboats could talk…”