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Welcome to New Adventures Sailing

Take a break from the "real world" and enjoy a daysail or a weekend getaway. We offer daysails 4-5 hours most days during the summer. Or plan a longer adventure into the San Juan Islands. Stimulus Detox on a fast, safe and comfortable sailing yacht. You'll have the opportunity to help crew, raise the sails, crank a winch and steer to the wind. 
Check out our options below or call for custom experience. 

New Adventures since 1623

4 Hour Daysail - (per person)

$130.00

Experience a sunset sail in Sequim Bay, out to Dungeness Spit Lighthouse or out into the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Depending on conditions, you may have an opportunity to be on the helm. 4 hours of sailing with select food & beverages complimentary. $130 per person, $600 for group of 5 persons, 6 maximum. Must be scheduled in advance. Weather may postpone or cancel sailings.
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Weekend in the San Juans - Per couple (2 couple max)

$2,350.00

Embark Friday afternoon, sail across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the San Juan Islands. Anchor in a quiet bay and enjoy nice meal. In the morning, we weigh anchor and go to discover so many of the options available in the islands. We could do a stop in Friday harbor, walk the town, grab lunch at a local brewery or over-water restaurant. Then sail up to Roche Harbor or Garrison Bay, grab some ice cream or local fresh seafood. Then on Sunday, work our way back to John Wayne Marina to disembark.

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Stimulus Detox Experience

$1,150.00

Are you tired of running from one thing to the next? Do you feel like your life is on rails? What quality of decisions would you make if you could just stop long enough to think? 


Maybe you need a stimulus detox. 


New Adventures Sailing offers an exclusive 4-7 day detox experience.


Start with a ferry ride, we’ll pick you up and take you for a home cooked meal, a 1 hour massage with a nationally certified massage therapist. Then you arrive at the sailing yacht Redemption where you will spend the night aboard in your private cabin. We'll leave for a nearby anchorage for a good night sleep. No technology, we’ll gladly hold your phones or place them in airplane mode. They make good cameras. No social media, news or other external stimulus. We may offer Mocktails or tea for a relaxing evening. 


We depart in the morning for the San Juan Islands 25-35 miles across the Strait of Juan de Fuca and arrive a peaceful anchorage on San Juan or Shaw Island.


Since this is a detox, we encourage walks in the woods, paddle boarding or maybe a cold-plunge in the 55 degree Salish Sea. Then warm up and read a book, or just chat about life. 


We can arrange whale watching excursions baed in Friday or Roche Harbors via kayak or tour boat. 


Sample locally sourced seafood, coffee, ice cream and stroll through small towns along the waterfront. 


Maybe even take a nap in a hammock slowly rocking at anchor. 


This will be a sober experience, no alcohol needed. We encourage journaling and time to take inventory of your life and opportunities. 

Ready to reset? Sail on Redemption.


Add to cart qty = the number of days you want, 4 day minimum.

Price per cabin per day, one couple max for privacy.
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Oxnard to Newport Beach

30/9/2016

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Sea Day 10 Oxnard to Newport Beach, CA

We had a quiet night at the marina in Oxnard, King Harbor. I was quite tired and slept in until 0800. Tim was making coffee and that will get me out of bed. We’ve been on the boat long enough that things are reaching the point of used up. Tim had to switch the propane tanks as the first one was empty this morning. It's funny how making coffee can involve a wrench on a boat. 

We wanted to get going around 0900 so we could get into Newport Beach early enough to snag a slip from the Harbormaster. We got the last one! Yay! 

As we were preparing to leave Oxnard we met Mike and Sue Morgan, editor of Cruising Outpost. They also have a Cheoy Lee 35, but its design is by Rob. They helped us get out of the slip and straight down the fairway, that was nice.

The trip was 38 miles today. The sun was hot! I had to sunscreen up twice! Once we got going Tim was able to do a video conference call and work while I watched for traffic, monitored Otto, checked off waypoints and set new waypoint courses for Otto to track. I was on for about 2 hours. I definitely was ready for a break from the sun! In the high sun of the middle of the day, we don’t really have shade. That will have to be remedied before heading to very sunny tropical places.

We checked in with the Harbormaster and moved to our slip for a finished trip at 1700. It was quite warm and we decided to prep our things for showers and then take a walk on the little beach next to our slip and go wading or swimming. We got nicely cooled down wading. Then we sat on a bench and watched the sun set. It was a pleasant evening.

We have quite a lot of motion in this slip. We can see the ocean from here. Our boat is tied up to keep it in a hovering position in the slip so it’s not coming hard into the dock.
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Santa Barbara to Oxnard to Redondo Beach

29/9/2016

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Sea Day 9 Santa Barbara to Oxnard, CA

We spent the morning cleaning up and getting ready to head out again. We were thinking all sorts of different ideas about where we were heading next. We pulled out about 1145 and headed for the gas dock where we took on 21.4 gallons of diesel. It would seem that we were not getting the same usage of 0.6 gallons per hour but more like 1 gallon per hour, but we have been running the engine at higher RPM.

As we were traveling we really wished that we had wind to sail! Its beginning to feel like we are power boaters, just motoring from port to port.

We arrived at the Channel Islands Harbor, Oxnard in good daylight about 1711 to the harbormasters office to get our slip assignment. We got to our slip and tied up and tidied the boat. 

Our friends Ed and Adrienne live nearby and we made arrangements to meet them for dinner. We hadn’t seen them for about 4 months or so. We neglected to take that selfie while we were at dinner and during daylight. We met up at Toppers for pizza. Yes, Tim and I were really thinking pizza was the right thing to eat. The food set well with us.

After dinner Ed, Adrienne and their son David transported us back to the marina and spent some time with us on the boat. Adrienne wanted to know what it was like being together in this space every day and how that affected our relationship. Well, that’s another question we have to figure out how to answer. We aren’t sure what the answer to that question is.

We all got off the boat and did a selfie in the dark and then sent them home and we went inside to figure out what our next move was going to be. We were thinking we would head all the way to Newport about 80 miles, but then we did calculations and decided that wasn’t going to work out unless we got up in the middle of the night or we left late and overnighted it. Two Harbors at Catalina Island was looking like a nice split point but then we checked up on the harbor to find that Buccaneer Days were happening. No thanks, we will just go to King Harbor in Redondo Beach area instead, 48 miles. Then we will go onto Newport the following day.

Sea Day 10 Oxnard to Redondo Beach, CA

We slept in a bit, rolling out of our berth a little after 0700. Both of us feeling like we could sleep several more hours. We got our coffee and Tim set about finding us berthing in King Harbor for the night. Success! He found a place that will be perfect and at the right price. We checked out and headed out about 1000. Reports said we might actually have sailable wind today! Yes! We found the wind and enjoyed sailing free of the motor for several hours. We needed to make port before dark and sailing without the motor wasn’t going to get us there soon enough so we fired up the engine again to clip along at about 7 or so knots.

I found myself feeling bored so I worked on knots again today, feel fairly confident in my bowline, I worked on the clove hitch and a double figure eight. I even snoozed for a while.

We spend a good amount of our time trying out different things while we are under way. We love to experiment when its “safe” to do so. We worked with our Monitor wind steering vane, we decided to name the vane Monet. The reason why Claude Monet is the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the impressionistic movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature. So we have the power hog Otto and the wind driven Monet. Maybe we need to name the engine? We also talk a good deal about what we are feeling the boat doing. We were doing quite a bit of yawing in the 14-16 knots downwind. So we reefed the jib to the first reef point and it really settled down and we did not lose any speed. In order for Monet to work well we must have our sails in balance and trimmed well, so this is all part of the process. It takes seamanship to feel, see and respond to what is happening on the boat. Monitor wind vanes have been given a really bad rap. If you can’t balance your boat the Monitor can’t do its job. Many cruisers just opt for the power hungry autopilot and then it doesn’t matter as much how well the sails are trimmed up. We have seen this a lot while we were sailing in San Diego. We were even dogged on for spending too much time looking at sail trim while sailing. Let those dog on, we will work to keep our sails trimmed and balanced so Monet can do work for us.

With time on our hands we revisited Adrienne’s question about how being together every day all the time is changing or affecting our relationship. Being together feels normal. Sometimes I ask Tim too many questions when he’s doing something and that frustrates him, I have to learn to ask him less questions. I’m talking about questions like: Do you want me to fill up your canteen? Followed by: Do you want trace minerals? Then to: Are you hungry? Should I make dinner?

Continuing the topic of relational affects, I’m experiencing feelings of being crazy for Tim. His hair has grown out and he looks like when I met him. I just go googoo gaga over him. His looks make my heart race sometimes. I really liked him a great deal when we met. The feelings I experienced when we were first married are just a fraction of the intensity that I feel for him now. Since we are past the raising kids stage we are back to the two of us and it’s amazingly awesome! There are other aspects of how our relationship is now that would simply be TMI (too much information), I’ll just provide an answer I’ve said before on this same topic: its hot!

As we were coming into this port area we were glad to have a local leading the way. The channel is very narrow however Tim did not get the best of directions. We had fairway drama tonight with a little too much wind, no space for maneuvering and a wrong turn from bad directions. Left, no, right! That is not as easy in a boat as it is a car, no brakes! Maximum stress, a couple helpful souls to tell us where we were supposed to be and fending us off. No actual boats were harmed in this incident due to quick thinking and fenders to cushion as we nearly rafted up to another sailboat. Finally we got some speed in reverse to allow for some steerage and back all the way down to where we were supposed to be and pulled off a normal uneventful docking into our slip for the night.

We cooked London broil and broccoli. I had to throw out a couple bags of vegetables that were frozen but had thawed out and soured. We are still figuring out how to use the icebox and fridge. I read the user manual during our trip. 

We planned our next leg and hit the sack quite tired.
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    Tim & Lynette Jenné have their feet firmly planted in midair. We don't know what tomorrow brings, but are very excited to see what surprises come our way. ​Tim's favorite leadership quote:
    "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    ​Captain John Jenne (1596 - 1643), son of Henry Jenne and Mary Smythe, was born 21 December 1596 at Lakenham Parish, Norfolk, England; He married Sarah Carey. They emigrated to the Colonies from Leyden in 1623 aboard the Little James, accompanied by the ship Anne. Their daughter Sarah was born 23 July 1623, at sea.
    — New Adventures since 1623

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