What’s better for cruising: Mexico or the Caribbean?
Hopeful cruisers sometimes wonder where to start their adventures afloat. Pacific side of Mexico or the Caribbean – both beautiful…
Blooper Reel: Jamie’s take on summer in the Sea of Cortez
Jamie wrote the lines below while we baked in the Sea of Cortez summertime heat while ducking bees zooming around…
Insider ideas: Totem’s 2020 gift guide
Every year we put a holiday gift guide together, to help pick out something special for the cruisers and cruisers-to-be…
Cruising untethered in the Sea of Cortez
Cruising is steeped in freedom. Thanks to coronavirus, that makes it more appealing than ever, while at the same time…
Beat the heat in the Sea of Cortez
How do you stay cool in the Sea of Cortez? Summers place it among the hottest cruising grounds in the…
Weather routing for passages
Jamie will be the first to tell you he’s not a weather router. But weather advice has crept into the…
Preparing a boat for haulout
Leaving Puerto Peñasco’s harbor in our wake last December, I really expected it would be years – many years! –…
Foraging while cruising
The flavor of places we visit as cruisers is a meaningful part of the joy of cruising. The literal flavor:…
Going in the face of uncertainty
Taking our children under the Golden Gate Cheering on a family beginning their cruising dreams this morning, I imagined the…
Totem’s interim normal
A new rhythm patterns our secluded life as Totem floats off the cinder-strewn cone of Isla Coronados. Calling this the…