Author: Dean Cooper

Dean crewed aboard Aventura, a Caliber 38 owned by Ken & Patty Hall fron Redwood City, Ca. A crew of 4 sailed from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas from November 4th through the 14th. Here’s pictures. Duet Image Gallery

I’ve never thought that I would be so happy to see the end of a year, but I’m so glad that 2020 is over. We had a hose failure in the fresh-water cooling system on the engine when out sailing on the bay with our granddaughters back in November, 2020. Did a quick-fix and got Read More

It’s early, but the season will be upon us soon! Cathy and I went out for a short sail on Saturday, January 18th, nice day for the middle of the winter. Did some clean-up and checked up on everything to make sure all’s well. No major trips on the horizon right now, but we’ll be Read More

It looks like it’s going to be a busy spring/summer season. We went out on Saturday, March 16th for about 7 hours, quiet wind but a beautiful day on the bay, had lots of fun. Just kind of followed the wind/current, found ourselves northwest of Alcatraz, right during a tide shift, some interesting currents happening Read More

Cathy and I went down to Duet to check things out and spend the weekend in the city. Nice little getaway, took the spinnaker off the shelf and brought it with us, flew it a little bit, but the wind showed up “all of a sudden” and knocked us around a bit. Nice day though, Read More

It’s been a few weeks, need to feel the wind in the sails. Anyone want to join us?

We’re so relieved to have moved the boat out of hurricane areas before the season this year. We’re praying for all those that have lost so much to the storms this year.

Last weekend spent the weekend on the boat with the Riggs family. Great time had by all, quiet winds, which is a good start for the little ones! Enjoying the opportunity to share our love of sailing with our family and friends.

On Saturday, August 5th, Cathy and I took 3 friends and went for a day sail around the bay. We took a long loop around Treasure Island and back to the dock.  Then off to a nice dinner!  All the changes I did to the running rigging worked great, so now we have 2 fully Read More

Before the sun came up on Saturday, July 15th Cathy and I headed to Alameda to move the boat to her new home in the San Francisco bay. We got some fuel and put it in, put the bimini on, and headed out to the Brisbane Marina, Cathy by land, Dean by sea. Not much Read More