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Mike & I live in Maine when we’re not working on the podcast from our aging trawler in San Pablo Bay, California. This journal tells the story behind the stories, and how at this late stage in our lives, we decided that a brand new chapter would be more fun than an epilogue. — Kate

Small craft advisory

Mike assembling his wicked cool boat Living on a trawler is not enough marine immersion for Mike, not by a long shot, so in the past 18...

Jun 7

breakfast on the Bay

Mike's son Nat is visiting from Alaska. He went to the farmer's market and is making breakfast. It was delicious.

May 18

this completely expresses my feelings about marketing

Apr 11

Under the radar no more

We interviewed Carl Nolte, legendary 90-year-old columnist for the SF Chronicle, to do a story on him and he turned the tables and did...

Jun 16, 2024

Happy Day in San Pablo Harbor

Yard sale bounty! Mike and his son Nat (visiting from Alaska) unload the kayak and SUP board we scored at a neighborhood-wide garage sale...

Jun 1, 2024

Counting cormorants

Mark Rauzon and Meredith Elliott on the Baykeeper boat yesterday, counting double-crested cormorants under the SF Oakland Bay Bridge....

May 18, 2024

Old Boat Chronicles

Mike and Kate contemplate their lack of boat repair skills from dockside thrones, following their 7th trip to the marine hardware store....

Apr 1, 2024

Nigel drops in again

...and within 5 minutes of arrival, is inside the engine room. He is figuring out our malfunctioning water system, a very welcome...

Mar 27, 2024

Army engineers

We spent today with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Sausalito. First at the gigantic working hydraulic Bay Model, with Park Ranger...

Mar 19, 2024

A Conspiracy of Beards

When you discover that your harbormaster, a former opera singer, has for 20 years been conducting a men's chorus called the Conspiracy of...

Mar 18, 2024

OK life is getting a little better

Here's Mike trying out a donated SUP board this sunny Sunday morning. Also, we have running water as of last night. The salon carpet is...

Mar 17, 2024

Drab cross country trip

No dog, no sun, no joy, no fun photos. Without Georgie, we discovered, all the joy leached out of our cross country trip. It was our 16th...

Mar 11, 2024

Farewell, love

It kills me to write this, but we lost our darling Georgie today. She was 14. She began failing last Thursday, the day before we were to...

Mar 4, 2024

Straddling the stupid gibble in transcription hell

"The photograph shows me on the very tip of the iceberg facing forward straddling stupid Gibble..." I recently opted for cheap...

Feb 22, 2024

35 years of Baykeeper wins

Sejal's latest newsletter contains a fantastic timeline referencing some of Baykeeper's biggest success stories over the past 35 years....

Feb 14, 2024

Crabbing with your neighbors

This is how Mike spent the day yesterday. Out the door at 6AM, back by 12:30, offshore 4-5 miles on a fast boat with seven guys under the...

Nov 22, 2023

I SAID the boat is LISTING

Mike is still in New Orleans and we're heading into another new moon with big negative tides. Well, big for here. We're kind of the talk...

Nov 11, 2023

The ghosts in our breakwater

Our breakwater is built out of sunken ships. It's a distinctive shape, like two crab pincers reaching into the water. The lefthand pincer...

Nov 10, 2023

California bat ray

Big commotion the other night. Around midnight, our neighbor Chris heard loud splashing and thrashing just outside his boat. Thinking...

Nov 3, 2023

Microphone hell

I noted earlier that we bought the high-end mics our friend Bernie Krause recommended. They're DPA 4060s, for those of you following...

Nov 2, 2023