Pacific Northwest
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December 21, 2012Can Your Dinghy Fly?Micheal Robertson discovers that his Portland Pudgy tender can be powered by oars, outboard, sails, and . . . balloons!
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December 18, 2012The ReelTo Michael Robertson, a reel on the stern indicates a serious sailor—an extreme cruiser.
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December 4, 2012My LED TrickSo I’ve been playing around with LED lights, and I discovered something. I don’t know how useful it is, or whether it will diminish the life of the bulb, or cause a fire, but that is all beside the point.
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December 3, 2012Sort of the Same, but SlowerWhile many aspects of a "stationary" cruising life are the same as regular life, mornings aboard Del Viento are never a mad scramble, the days are never a pressure cooker.
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November 20, 2012InsulationThe Robertsons find that life aboard in the wintertime is more damp than they expected.
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November 14, 2012Getting AroundNow immersed Victoria city life, but with no car and no car to borrow, we are reaffirming our pleasure of being unencumbered by an automobile.
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November 6, 2012Peril Before Panic"They’re announcing an evacuation of the marina. It is not a drill.”
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October 31, 2012Salish Sea PortsTo get to Victoria, we had to come up the relatively desolate Washington coast until we could make a right turn into the strait that separates the United States and Canada: the Strait of Juan de Fuca. This is all new and exciting geography for the crew of Del Viento.
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October 24, 2012She's Under Way!70-year-old British solo circumnavigator Jeanne Socrates left Victoria, BC, Monday morning to begin her third attempt at an unassisted, non-stop solo circumnavigation of the planet via the great southern capes.
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October 24, 2012Home FoundAs a cruising family we’ve lived temporarily in solitary anchorages, Mexican cities, and historic seaside towns. In Victoria, we look forward to something we haven’t had since leaving D.C.: Big City Life.
Electronic Updates
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