Little Ships Fleet Yacht Club · Alamitos Bay, Long Beach · founded 1937 Proud members since 2017
Ahoy, Little Shippers! Little Ships Fleet Yacht Club has been our home club since 2017, and we couldn’t be prouder to be part of it.
Tucked into Alamitos Bay since 1937, LSFYC is “the best kept secret in Alamitos Bay” and, in its own words, “a blue collar rather than a blue blood yacht club.” It’s all about racing, club cruises and good people, and that’s exactly why we love it.
Long before Some Tuesday cast off, this crew was cheering us on. They still are, every single month, from the other side of the Pacific. Thank you for the friendship, for packing the Shed to hear our plans, and for following along in Three Sheets in the Wind, on the tracker and on our socials. We carry a little bit of Alamitos Bay with us everywhere we go.
Our Little Ships Fleet burgee flew from Some Tuesday all the way across the Pacific, and it has the battle scars to prove it. After all that sun, salt and trade wind, it’s more threads than flag at this point, and we love it all the more for it.
S/C Moti kindly offered to send us a brand-new one, but we haven’t stayed anywhere long enough to take him up on it. With six months in Fiji, we finally will! And the old one is coming home to Alamitos Bay to hang in the Shed, as (we believe) the first LSFYC burgee ever to cross the Pacific.
From the club newsletter
The club’s monthly newsletter, Three Sheets in the Wind, has been following our adventure all along. These are the club’s own pages, linked straight to the public PDFs on lsfyc.org.
About 35 Little Shippers joined us at the Shed to hear how we planned to sail around the world. No slides, just photos, stories and plenty of laughs (and thanks to S/C Moti for the AV setup!). Here’s the short version, and how it’s actually turned out. The same story, written for anyone following the voyage, is how we prepared for a circumnavigation.
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Cutting the dock lines
This was never just a sailing trip. We closed our business, Meghan, Inc., to make this journey, simplified everything else, and made room for what really matters.
“Closing our last physical location feels like cutting the dock lines for our adventure! With every step along the way we look at each other and say ‘We’re really doing this!’”
02
Our four-legged crew
Colonel Mustard and Mr. Pickles are full-time crew, with their own spaces aboard, life vests, boat-life training (grass pad included!) and dog-friendly fun planned at every stop. And yes, they crossed the Pacific too. Meet them.
“Our dogs already love napping in the sun and they have good sea legs—boat life suits them!”
03
Teamwork makes the dream work
Meghan runs provisioning, interior design and cultural research; Steve takes navigation, mechanical systems and safety gear. Seven years of working side by side, 24/7, turned out to be great training.
“We learned early that clear communication—like agreeing who handles the anchor—keeps us sailing smoothly together!”
04
Getting Some Tuesday ready
The refit began in September 2023 and became much more major than we had planned: the mast came down for inspection, new sails went up, the salon became a proper living room, and the port forward cabin and head became our storage locker. An electronics refit expanded in scope as Steve kept seeing the benefit of additional upgrades. (Curious about the name? Here’s the story.)
solar, upgraded batteries (yes, for A/C), new mattress, dishwasher, new BBQ
Spares
house water pump, engine parts, joker valves, impellers, zincs
Fun
paddle boards, folding electric scooters, scuba tank compressor, fishing gear
Tender
Walker Bay Generation 12 LTE, our “daily driver”
05
Skills and safety
Steve took ASA 101, 102, 103, 104, and 114 in 2013 and 2014. In summer 2025 we took the US Sailing International Safety at Sea course (with the hands-on practical) at California Yacht Club, plus plenty of practice in tough conditions on purpose. Passage plans use PredictWind, the chartplotters, and a professional weather router, Ocean Tactics.
“Bad weather today? Let’s go sailing!”
06
Staying connected, ready for anything
Starlink for weather and work, a Garmin inReach as our backup messenger and redundant GPS, and a plan for when things break: spares, a drogue for emergency steering, a redundant autopilot and a well-stocked medical kit.
“Stocking sutures and a scuba compressor feels like preparing for anything!”
07
All that downtime
Everyone asked what we’d do with it! Daily exercise, reading, Meghan creating couture, crafting, decorating, perfecting the art of sailing, and learning local customs and a few phrases before every new place.
“We’re not just sailing around the world—we’re building a new life with our dogs and each other!”
08 · The plan we shared (July 2025)
The five-year float plan
A loop of roughly 30,000–40,000 nm, around the world and home to Long Beach.
Oct 2025 – Aug 2026South along Mexico and Central America to Panama, with Ecuador and the Galápagos (changed!)
Jul – Aug 2026Across the Pacific from Panama to French Polynesia, ~6,000 nm (changed!)
Aug 2026 – Aug 2027The South Pacific, with a cyclone-season pause
Sep 2027 – May 2028Western Pacific, Indian Ocean and the Red Sea
Jun 2028 – Jul 2029The Med, then across the Atlantic to the Caribbean
Jun – Oct 2030Through the Panama Canal and home to Long Beach
What actually happened (so far)
Plans are written in sand at low tide
We still sailed down Mexico, but life had other plans for Panama, so we jumped off for the Pacific from El Salvador instead.
Dec 3, 2025Cast off from Los Angeles, with a quick stop at Catalina
December 2025Ensenada, Bahía Tortugas (Turtle Bay), then Cabo San Lucas on Dec 20
Dec 2025 – Feb 2026La Paz and the Sea of Cortez, Puerto Vallarta, Barra de Navidad, Manzanillo and Acapulco
It took a while to sink in, even for us. Sitting in La Paz with a margarita, Steve told Meghan, “This may still feel like we’re on vacation, but we’re not. This is our life now. We live here, on the ocean.” Meghan needed back surgery and flew home from Acapulco.
Late Feb – Mar 2026 (Steve solo)Steve solo-sailed over 700 miles from Acapulco to Bahía del Sol, El Salvador, with a checkout stop at Puerto Madero, Chiapas, where he checked out of Mexico. Meghan flew back to rejoin the boat in El Salvador.
Apr 2 – 29, 2026Across the Pacific together, El Salvador to the Marquesas: 28 days at sea. Waiting any longer would have meant worse conditions and less wind.
Marquesas, from Apr 29Landfall in Taiohae Bay, Nuku Hiva, then Anaho Bay, Daniel’s Bay and Ua Pou
Tuamotus, late May – JunRaroia, Fakarava and Rangiroa
Society Islands, late Jun – JulTahiti, Moorea and Bora Bora
August 2026Aitutaki in the Cook Islands, then Niue
Tonga, September 2026The Vava’u group
Tonga, the Ha’apai group WE’RE HEREThen back up to Vava’u to check out for Fiji
Next: Fiji, ~Oct 18–19, 2026About six months there
The big unknown: getting to the Med in 2028The Gulf of Aden isn’t safe right now, so honestly, we don’t know yet how we’ll get there. Stay tuned!
After thatThe rest of the dream route, with the dates still to come
N2E 2025 crew, outfits by First Mate MegFirst Mate Meg on the bowPaddle board timeOff-watch crew
Fair winds, Little Shippers!
Thanks for being our home port. And to every Little Shipper who follows along, whether you read our page in the newsletter, check the tracker to see where we are, or cheer us on through our socials: thank you! Knowing you’re out there makes every passage a little shorter. We’ll keep the stories coming.
