https://www.boatus.com/expert-advice/expert-advice-archive/2022/february/my-improbable-journey ..read more

Meet Erinn, my videographer. She’s an aspiring sailor who found my channel through a YouTube search for Black women in sailing. I’m lucky she did, and that she lives 7 minutes away from me. Thanks to her I’ve gone from struggling to release a video every month to posting a new one every Friday. And in exchange, I teach her everything I know about sailing, boats, and boat work. In this Q&A, we discuss how we got into sailing, what we love about it, and what we find challenging. We also discuss diversity and inclusivity in sailing, what are the main barriers for Black and other POC to get ou ..read more

Please attend the National Women’s Sailing Association’s She Sailor Sea Story event to hear my Sharing Sailing story (among others). It’s about using my platform as a Black woman sailor to connect with other Black women who want to get into sailing, but who might feel excluded by the fact that sailing seems so white. I will tell a little story about one such friend I recently made through my YouTube channel ..read more

Racism and Colorism are as relevant to the topic of sailing as how to rig a boom preventer and where to position a traveler car to maximize upwind performance. And yet there is a great divide within the sailing community about whether racism should even be mentioned in a space reserved for the general topic of sailing–even if the discussion is about how racism can impact the sport of sailing, how it can determine who is most likely to become a sailor, and how certain sailors will describe different experiences while sailing based on their race. For example, I know some sailors in the Los Angel ..read more

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My latest YouTube video in which I decide to chuck my ancient furler and learn to hank a sail https://youtu.be/_uRTI4R9GUs ..read more

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I am back from my 1.5 year YouTube hiatus ..read more

A Hallberg Rassy Monsun 31 built in 1976 with a 2008 Universal 25-XP engine that has only 99 hours on it. More soon ..read more

Over the past couple months I’ve embarked on a new project. Remember when I posted the sketches of all the new teak drawers and cabinets I planned to install? Well, I discovered a much cheaper and easier way to improve the look of the cabin: just paint everything. First I was going to paint everything white. But then I decided to do red trim and red accents on the doors and cabinets. My last step, once I’ve got more coats on everything and have finished the aft side of the cabin (which will require me to remove my electronics and some old out of use gauges in the bulkhead, and fill the hole ..read more