The anchor is down. We’ve come home. — This site is kept as a record of five extraordinary years spent sailing the Pacific coast to Mexico aboard S/V Eïone.

Our Story

At 50 we quit corporate life, sold all our belongings, bought a boat and went sailing in search of a life less ordinary. Mid‑life crisis? Possibly. Insanity? Probably. This is what happened.

Darrin up the mast
Darrin up the mast
Linda getting ready to go
Linda getting ready to go

Recent Posts

Sea of Cortez - Return to La Paz

Sea of Cortez - Return to La Paz

Loreto is the prettiest little town. Old trees and cobbled streets, the town square and church, nestled between the mountains and the jewel blue sea. It truly has an ‘old world’

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Sea of Cortez - Mission San Javier

Sea of Cortez - Mission San Javier

Aside from a small burst of wind at about 2:30AM, we had a quiet night in Bahia San Evaristo for the most part. Occasionally we’d wake to the boat rocking crazily and the noise of

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A Life Less Ordinary Indeed

A Life Less Ordinary Indeed

When we set off in search of a life less ordinary two years ago, this is not what we were looking for. We never imagined anything like a worldwide pandemic was just around the corn

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Sea of Cortez - San Evaristo

Sea of Cortez - San Evaristo

We had a fun evening there at the restaurant meeting others anchored in the bay, and cruisers who had been there before us had painted their boat names on shells and put them on a

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Exploring in the Sea of Cortez

Exploring in the Sea of Cortez

After our lovely trip to see friends and do some inland exploring, we were well and truly ready to get off the dock and out into the Sea of Cortez. We'd been delayed because of hea

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Land Travels - Guadalajara

Land Travels - Guadalajara

We were excited to start exploring Guadalajara after our party trip to Puerto Vallarta. After a long restorative sleep we donned our comfy shoes, grabbed the “big”camera, had a lov

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