Living History in La Tabatiere
It was strange to think that we were in the remotest coast we’d been yet, accessible only by boat—when the ice allowed—and bush plane.
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It was strange to think that we were in the remotest coast we’d been yet, accessible only by boat—when the ice allowed—and bush plane.
After a summer spent cruising in the sparsely populated regions of the Canadian Maritimes, the Zartman family is scraping the bottom of the lockers aboard Ganymede.
Doing a little each day keeps the laundry at bay.
Michael Robertson recalls the night that he almost lost Del Viento and his family in a chain of events that spanned about five minutes.
When you know of another boat in trouble, what do you do?
A family sets off on a 52-footer, then takes stock and makes a choice.
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
The crew of Ganymede spent a few days in Fleur-de-Lys, Newfoundland, a small fishing village, and enjoyed some hospitality and a visit with some old cruising friends.
I remembered reading, somewhere long ago, that along this coast they refer to North as “Down”, as if descending into further cold and danger, and South as “Up.”
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.
Things weren’t looking so good for the Zartman family’s stopover in this small fishing village, but then they met the charismatic and very helpful mayor.
It was strange to think that we were in the remotest coast we’d been yet, accessible only by boat—when the ice allowed—and bush plane.
After a summer spent cruising in the sparsely populated regions of the Canadian Maritimes, the Zartman family is scraping the bottom of the lockers aboard Ganymede.
Doing a little each day keeps the laundry at bay.
Michael Robertson recalls the night that he almost lost Del Viento and his family in a chain of events that spanned about five minutes.
When you know of another boat in trouble, what do you do?
A family sets off on a 52-footer, then takes stock and makes a choice.
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
The crew of Ganymede spent a few days in Fleur-de-Lys, Newfoundland, a small fishing village, and enjoyed some hospitality and a visit with some old cruising friends.
I remembered reading, somewhere long ago, that along this coast they refer to North as “Down”, as if descending into further cold and danger, and South as “Up.”
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.
Things weren’t looking so good for the Zartman family’s stopover in this small fishing village, but then they met the charismatic and very helpful mayor.
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