Sailing Papillon

I haven't eaten a healthy thing in four days now.  I am going to have to go on a vegetable IV drip if this keeps up.  Since Erik start...

Here we are, two days from Christmas.  Time to break out that wallet and go buy some cheap junk that your family neither wants nor needs! ...

It's that time of year again when even the most patient parents consider slipping out of the house and hiding under a tarp in the bac...

What is this woman talking about? I hope everyone has read Michael Robertson's The Complete Guide to Caring for a Cruiser in this m...

I think I smell bad.  After spending three hours in the park then hiking over the hills of Noumea in 30 C heat, how could I be anything b...

Stylish was hard at work on her math when the light mist turned into a pelting rainstorm.  She dropped her pencil and looked out of the co...

“So, what did you do at school today?” I know better than to ask this question.  There isn’t a child alive who has ever replied with actu...

Over the past few months, I have sent a lot of emails with a line that looked like this: “Our current and almost definite plan is to head ...

Ring, ring. "Hello.  This is Boat French.  Would you like to go with us to Le parc provincial de la Rivière Bleue for a picnic on ...

Q: Do you have a planned end to your cruise? When you get to a particular place? After a set number of years?  When you (or the girls) get...

There are days I think that we moved onto Papillon not to sail the seven seas, not to give Erik endless tinkering projects, not to spend f...

We woke up on Monday to discover the boat was sinking.  On my way to the bathroom, I heard an unwelcome drip drip sound coming from benea...