Sailing adventures of Captain Kirk, Heidi, Tosh & Tikka...

Provisioning for a Pandemic

By Heidi & Kirk | Mar 20, 2020 |
provisioning for a pandemic, Hawaii Super in Melaque, Mexico

We are certainly living in interesting times… Hoping you and your loved ones are safe and well amidst all the COVID-19 craziness going on around the globe. As we write this, we have dear friends who’ve been trying to get back to the US from Italy for over a week, another friend trying to get…

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Barra de Navidad: Wahoo, We Finally Made It!

By Heidi & Kirk | Mar 8, 2020 |
Heidi & Kirk with drinking coconuts, Tenicatita

Wahoo, we have finally arrived in Barra de Navidad, the elusive town we’ve been trying to visit for the past four years! Barra de Navidad is only a three- to four-hour drive south of Puerto Vallarta, but it takes two- to three-days to sail here. When we left Seattle our original plan was to spend…

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Welcome to Our NEW Blog!

By Heidi & Kirk | Jan 4, 2020 |
Heidi gettin' Hygge

Since we’ve been getting Due West spit-and-polished, we thought we might as well give her a new blog too! While we’ve really appreciated all that Sailblogs has had to offer over the years, it has been very cumbersome to use. So Heidi is hoping by having a new WordPress blog, it will cut her blogging…

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Ho Ho Ho!

By Heidi & Kirk | Dec 24, 2019 |
Ho Ho Ho from s/v Due West

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to all of our family, friends, and readers near and far. We had hoped to slip our lines last week and sail a few days south to Barra de Navidad by Christmas. Since the town is named “Christmas” we’ve heard it’s a fun place to be. But apparently, Neptune has…

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Nose to the Grindstone

By Heidi & Kirk | Dec 15, 2019 |
Kirk, nose to the grindstone on another project that just cropped up when we least expected it... rebuilding the engine fuel lift pump. It's always something... it's a boat!

Happy December! We moved back aboard Due West on Thanksgiving day, and are grateful to be back home from our condo-sitting gig during hurricane season. Tosh and Tikka were super happy to be home as well, and got right back into the swing of boat life faster than we did! Although Kirk spent all of hurricane season…

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