Year In Review
I’ve shared our past year throughout, in pictures and words, but following is a digest of stats and impressions.
I’ve shared our past year throughout, in pictures and words, but following is a digest of stats and impressions.
Since we started cruising, there have been many imperatives to go, go, go. We spent much of our first cruising year working on the boat,
The Robertson family aboard Del Viento continue a sweet family tradition while spending the holidays in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez.
We’re leaving San Diego as we came, our boom broken. We’re going to try to get it repaired in Mexico. Absurd? Crazy? Maybe. I can’t
I hate not knowing. It’s the one thing that makes me anxious and unsettled and unhappy and unproductive. I don’t mean lack of knowledge, I
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.
Del Viento lifted on a big swell. A big gust blew. The sail slacked for a brief moment and I could feel the stern falling exactly the wrong way.
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 shared our past year throughout, in pictures and words, but following is a digest of stats and impressions.
Since we started cruising, there have been many imperatives to go, go, go. We spent much of our first cruising year working on the boat,
The Robertson family aboard Del Viento continue a sweet family tradition while spending the holidays in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez.
We’re leaving San Diego as we came, our boom broken. We’re going to try to get it repaired in Mexico. Absurd? Crazy? Maybe. I can’t
I hate not knowing. It’s the one thing that makes me anxious and unsettled and unhappy and unproductive. I don’t mean lack of knowledge, I
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.
Del Viento lifted on a big swell. A big gust blew. The sail slacked for a brief moment and I could feel the stern falling exactly the wrong way.
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.
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