• Coconut at sea
  • My first beer can race
  • His first life jacket
  • our little 26’er
  • Can you see it?
  • Home Sweet Home!
  • Sailing back after our first haul out
  • Just sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge, nbd
  • Racing :)
  • She loves sailing
  • He loves belly rubs
  • My galley on the 26’er
  • Splicing fun!
  • Cleaning fun!
  • Sailing fun!
  • We love our friends
  • Raft up
  • Dinghy rides
  • Weekly sail fun
  • She hates kids…
  • He loves them!
  • Annual Kite Festival
  • He really loves the dinghy too
  • Sailing back to the dock
  • Hike at Angel Island
  • Angel Island raft up
  • Their thoughts about sailing
  • Watching the Americas Cup
  • Raft Up Dinners are the best!
  • Rainy days inside a cabin I could barely stand up in
  • My 26’er that shall remain nameless
  • Here she is! Coconut
  • She was officially ours on May 12, 2014!
  • Raft up at Treasure Island
  • Pirates, all of us
  • Bay Bridge
  • Knopkierrie, Pacific Seacraft 37′ in Kaneohe, Hawaii
  • How I did my watches on the ocean crossing!
  • The easiest ocean crossing ever
  • Half Way Party!
  • Journaling
  • Land Ho!
  • Delicious burger at Sam’s in Sausalito
  • He’s very pretty
  • Girls just wanna have fu-un
  • For a while we just motored around due to the old rig / sails
  • Do your dogs like water?…
  • …nope!
  • Motoring around in SF
  • New Years Eve at Aquatic Park
  • Technically the first sail, February 13, 2015
  • Up the coast!
  • To beautiful Point Reyes
  • Fog Rainbow
  • Bear learned his lessons, no saying HI to SKUNK
  • She’s SO NOSY
  • He’s SO HANDSOME
  • Our last apartment in Phoenix
  • Blue Pelican’s security guards
  • Soaking up the morning sun before mama has to go to work….
  • Wolf Bear
  • My babies
  • Are we starting to look alike?
  • Stoic Baes
  • They like camping too :)
  • Havasupai Falls
  • Hatch Belly
  • Derp
  • They are plotting against me
  • Rowing to shore for our early morning walks!
  • The one time they saw the snow
  • Friends!
  • Sailing is more comfortable when wedged behind me
  • She sniffs something!
  • Horsie friends MA!
  • They share the same birthday month, April
  • Friends!!
  • Yes, I chopped it off once and it was amazing
  • Where our adventures Began in 2006
  • Marina doggie and human friends
  • Marinas with dog parks are the best!
  • Mast Before
  • During
  • After
  • New Prop
  • Rig work
  • “Before” at Point Reyes, CA
  • “After” at Two Harbors, Catalina
  • Coconut at sea
  • Hanging onto the oars for me at the dinghy dock!
  • Night watches be like…
  • The Pacific is c o l d
  • Faro / Lighthouse
  • Seagull eggs
  • The first two dogs to visit this particular island, Todos Santos
  • Coco
  • Yes, I do work on my boat
  • Antarctica
  • Pelagic Australis at the Melchior Islands, Antarctica
  • Iceberg
  • My babies
  • All of my babies
  • I talk about my shower caddy a LOT

Hi! I’m Rachel Belle, also known as “Salty Señorita” (although I’ve deleted all of my social media accounts so this website is the last remaining proof!). I’m the lady with the white fluffy dogs (Bear and Zita, aged 15) and we live aboard our 1976 Fantasia 34′ named Coconut. I’m a Veteran, Interior Design / Lighting Design / Web Designer / Transcriber / Boat Deliverer currently dabbling in Real Estate.

I’ve always been a minimalist who has tried to live below my means. While boat life was not in my plans, I’ve sailed close to 10,000 nautical miles in the last decade and paid off all of my debts while restoring two old boats! I’ve sailed (as crew) from Hawaii to San Francisco, from Chile to Antarctica and back, and sailed solo from San Francisco to Mexico (with the pups on board!). I have also done a handful of other deliveries along the Pacific Coast and in the Sea of Cortez, and it helps that I’m fluent in Spanish.

I’ve always been a hands on learner and am admittedly painfully independent. Everything I’ve learned about sailing I’ve learned from my dock neighbors, or YouTube, or I failed so many times I finally got it right! The accomplishment of reaching these seemingly small milestones (like fixing a broken bilge pump or getting my water tanks to finally hold water) on my own is beyond what I ever saw for myself yet better than I anything I could have imagined!

There are many reasons why this lifestyle has worked out for me, but at the end of the day it took a lot of hard work and came before, during, and after a lot of personal hardships. I had to decide for myself that I wasn’t going to waste a second of my life being unhappy with a chronically toxic job, partner, friend, or relative. Life is too short, and the only thing we have control over is ourselves anyways so we may as well make the most of our hopes and dreams while we can.

For inquiries or if you just want to say “hi!”, please contact me at saltysenorita@yahoo.com