10 Things We've Learned About Cruising in a Month

1. I need to put more sunscreen on my nose, like four times a day.

2. Videotaping whales from a rocking boat is difficult. You need to find a steady spot and lay off the zoom.

3. Smaller scallops taste better than bigger ones.

4. There's always room onboard for another can of black beans. Prior to this trip we never had enough groceries for a week onboard. The only hard part now is remembering where we stowed everything.

5. Waking up, having coffee and then riding the dinghy to a deserted point break for a surf is really, really good.

6. Don't hold a fish over the rail so DFG can measure it.

7. Kelp flies are indestructible and one of the only insect nuisances we've found in California.

8. Our water tanks taste a little bit like carrots.

9. We're only using a third of a gallon of diesel an hour.

10. "There is nothing, absolutely nothing, half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."