The Cape Dory Board

Thanks Jim, Marc, and everyone else. Skeep, I really appreciate the excellent review on Amazon. To answer your question, we left California in 2010 and the winter in Sitka was 2013/2014. Lots of darkness and precipitation in various forms, but an excellent environment to buckle down and write a book...

Hi Everyone, Thanks for the feedback. This is a very welcoming message board and I appreciate the friendly responses. I'm thrilled that everyone is enjoying the book. Tom, we loved Ford's Terror. We anchored in the east arm just past the gravel spit between a huge boulder and a 5,000 foot cliff in 3...

Hi Tom, Sorry we missed you in Sitka. We arrived in Juneau a few days ago and are heading down towards the Endicott Arm and associated glaciers. We will keep an eye out for you this summer. Doug, Thanks for taking the time to read the book. I didn't put too many boat outfitting specifics in because ...

Thanks for all the kind words. Our route was interesting, we learned quite a bit. The east-to-west Australian Bight crossing was inspired by one of the Pardey's books. I'm not sure we would do it again, although we wouldn't miss Tasmania for anything. We did very little to the boat to prepare other ...

In an act of shameless self-promotion, I'd like to post a link here to Orca , a book about circumnavigating aboard our CD30. Our boat served us faithfully and faultlessly in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Southern Oceans. I believe other CD owners will enjoy this account of our four-year, 40,000...