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The 38th Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival weekend kicks off with an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend the day with Steve Callahan and Lin and Larry
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The 38th Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival weekend kicks off with an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend the day with Steve Callahan and Lin and Larry
As I described in my previous post, we were over-canvased in a gale and we jibed. I too expected the preventer to prevent and I think it failed to do so as a result of line stretch.
In the spring of 2010, I emailed John and Cindy of Port Ludlow, WA. I’d learned online that they owned Namaste, one of the dozen-or-so
Michael Robertson recalls the night that he almost lost Del Viento and his family in a chain of events that spanned about five minutes.
By the afternoon, the wind was blowing 20 knots at our dock. It built steadily overnight until we first saw 53 knots on our anemometer the next morning.
Just a couple mornings ago we left Port Angeles, WA and headed northwest through the Salish Sea. At dinner time, approaching Cape Flattery, our bow
While sailing south along the western coast of Vancouver Island, B.C., the crew of Del Viento finds the coast littered with plastic debris from the 2011 tsunami.
I’ve never seen any place like this place. It seems to have everything, absent the drawbacks of having everything.
But every northward mile since leaving Victoria three months ago has been increasingly… and here is where I don’t know what to say. “Mind-blowing” and “profound” and other superlatives come to mind, but they don’t capture my experience.
In this traveling life, I’m always a visitor, wherever I am. I’m transient, not of the place I was, the place I am, or the place I’m going.
How does school happen in this cruising lifestyle? The truth: it doesn’t.
Since leaving Victoria two months ago, we’ve been overwhelmed by all we’ve seen and experienced. Now that we’ve reached our northern-most point at 59 degrees latitude, we’re going to head south, back to Mexico.
The 38th Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival weekend kicks off with an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend the day with Steve Callahan and Lin and Larry
As I described in my previous post, we were over-canvased in a gale and we jibed. I too expected the preventer to prevent and I think it failed to do so as a result of line stretch.
In the spring of 2010, I emailed John and Cindy of Port Ludlow, WA. I’d learned online that they owned Namaste, one of the dozen-or-so
Michael Robertson recalls the night that he almost lost Del Viento and his family in a chain of events that spanned about five minutes.
By the afternoon, the wind was blowing 20 knots at our dock. It built steadily overnight until we first saw 53 knots on our anemometer the next morning.
Just a couple mornings ago we left Port Angeles, WA and headed northwest through the Salish Sea. At dinner time, approaching Cape Flattery, our bow
While sailing south along the western coast of Vancouver Island, B.C., the crew of Del Viento finds the coast littered with plastic debris from the 2011 tsunami.
I’ve never seen any place like this place. It seems to have everything, absent the drawbacks of having everything.
But every northward mile since leaving Victoria three months ago has been increasingly… and here is where I don’t know what to say. “Mind-blowing” and “profound” and other superlatives come to mind, but they don’t capture my experience.
In this traveling life, I’m always a visitor, wherever I am. I’m transient, not of the place I was, the place I am, or the place I’m going.
How does school happen in this cruising lifestyle? The truth: it doesn’t.
Since leaving Victoria two months ago, we’ve been overwhelmed by all we’ve seen and experienced. Now that we’ve reached our northern-most point at 59 degrees latitude, we’re going to head south, back to Mexico.
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