- Momo arriving in Lautoka, Fiji, thirteen years ago
- Tiller pilot (video)
- El Mero in Guaymas four years ago. Docks are gone but the birds are still there.
- Napping on the beach in Loreto (video)
- This morning’s snapper (video)
- San Juanico, Sea of Cortez (video)
- Lutjanus Prandium
- Motoring into San Juanico (video)
- Not much to see (video)
- First storm of the season in Guaymas (video)
- Bought off the back of a truck in Guaymas (video)
- Cat on Her Back
- Long swim to shore (video)
- Chispa inspects work on the new companionway door (video)
- Medea is on the job
- Bling for Momo (video)
- Four years ago in San Carlos
- Small block repair (video)
- Wire hunting (video)
- Sunrise in Guaymas (video)
- Boxed Kitty no. 20
- This was 11 years ago today in Langkawi, Malaysia. Believe it or not, this is a Beneteau, built before the plastic age.
- Anchoring in Guaymas (video)
- Close-hauled kitties 104 nautical miles from Guaymas
- Boobies on Isabella
- Boobie Polyptych (video)
- Anchored 3.5 miles offshore (video)
- New-to-Me Fish (video)
- Drifting (video)
- Up the mast in Mazatlán (video)
- Two cars in Mazatlan (video)
- Time to clear things out.
- Fishing panga at Isla Isabella
- Isla Isabella
- Juvenile Frigatebird (video)
- Pork chop of the sea (video)
- Isla Isabella (video)
- Chispa inspecting the staysail after our short (but long — my God, it was slow) passage to Isla Isabella. (video)
- More than they can chew (video)
- Sailing towards the Sea of Cortez (video)
- What do we have here? (video)
- Little Green Aviator (video)
- Fourteen years ago today in Whangarei, New Zealand: rear view mirror, fuzzy dice, and bobble Jesus
- Ten years ago in Tanzania
- Sundowner kitties in La Cruz (video)
- Momo’s engine rebuild, 2014 (video)
- The cats sent the engineer up somebody else’s mast.
- Unmistakably Chispa (video)
- Yellowfin tuna on our passage from Costa Rica to Mexico (video)
- Hard at work
- Just before sunset in La Cruz (video)
- Red Tide in La Cruz (video)
- Making biscuits (video)
- Wildfire in La Cruz (Banderas Bay), Day Two (video)
- Coffee in La Cruz (video)
- Motored through the night. Just a few more miles to La Cruz.
- Coming into La Cruz (video)
- Close-hauled kitties (video)
- Crawling our way towards Cabo Corrientes… (video)
- 270 miles to Banderas Bay (video)
- Saying good night to our guests
- Boobies on the rail (video)
- Night sailing
- Becalmed in the Tehuantepec
- Chispa becalmed (video)
- Chispa finds a friend (video)
- A whale checks us out (video)
- Out of the wind shadow that is Costa Rica (video)
- Moving along nicely (video)
- We have a little bit of a breeze … (video)
- Sunrise at sea
- It’s been like this all day (video)
- Boobie on a mountain of sails (video)
- Leaving Golfito; PV is 1630 miles away (video)
- Leaving Golfito, Costa Rica, at sunset (video)
- Kitty in a bag, getting ready to go sailing (video)
- I’ve had this solo climbing gear for a long time but have never had to use it … (video)
- What makes a spot like this so comfortable?
- Under-the-knee cat
- Solemn assembly for the drinking of the beer (video)
- Boat’s a mess. Getting ready to sail back to Mexico … (video)
- Golfito sunset and a big-ass yacht
- Meeting of the cat minds (video)
- Quick dinghy tour of Golfito (north) Costa Rica (video)
- And you, Chispa?
- Peekaboo
- Medea makes herself comfortable in the clutter
- Good morning, Chispa
- Facebook tells me this was three years ago. She doesn’t look much different.
- Chispa vigorously not participating in the rat race
- Sunset in Golfito, Costa Rica (video)
- From sea to sky (video)
- Becalmed (video)
- Becalmed kitty
- The cats caught a sailfish today. Good teamwork on their part. But they made a bloody mess.
- The boobies are still here: two on the rail and a few others off hunting for breakfast.
- The boobies from yesterday have invited two of their friends. And they have somehow managed to shit on the vertical surface of the sail.
- Three passengers
- Medea at sea
Welcome to my Anarkitties page!
Momo has been my home for almost 25 years. My partner and I raised two daughters on the boat. The older one had already lived with us as a toddler aboard our first boat, a 28-foot Pearson Triton. When she was three, we moved onto Momo in anticipation of her younger sister, who was born in Mexico. Our second daughter was only eight or nine months old when we did our first full-blown ocean passage, namely, from Puerto Vallarta to Hawaii.
The sailboat gave us the opportunity as a family to pursue an exploratory lifestyle on a small footprint with immense personal freedom and relatively modest means. Without making it a mission, we ended up sailing around the world. The partner and the kids, all grown up, are in New Zealand now, building on this experience. I’m on the boat in Mexico engaged in a very different kind of sailing, growing increasingly familiar with the nooks and crannies of the Sea of Cortez, and doing so in the company of three perfectly lovely cats.
I love the sailing lifestyle. It isn’t for everyone. And it is certainly not easy. But if your dream is to step outside the box and give it a try, it is far more accessible than most people think. The idea behind this website is to encourage people to make it real. I am now launching this project in June 2026. Become a member to learn more and support the page.
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Momo’s “new” galvanized steel rig is now almost two and a half years old and has covered over 12,000 nautical miles. The rig is safer, stronger, and has less stretch than your typical rig made of stainless steel. And it cost a fraction of the price. Let me share how we got there.
When buying new rope, it makes sense to look outside the recreational marine industry.
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