We were recently honored to be interviewed by Benjamin Shaw of Out the Gate Sailing. Ben has a great podcast about sailing on the bay that we’ve listened to for a while. He interviews all sorts of people who have connections to San Francisco Bay sailing. We had a lovely sit down with him at …
I am very excited to have finally published our “Hacks” page. This has been in the works for a while and I’ve been slowly chipping away at it. I hope that it is very useful for soon-to-be cruisers and long term travelers. The idea is that it is a little corner of the website where …
Our friends Rikka and Tuomo Meretniemi on SV Panacea (a Swan 57), a cruising family out of Finland, asked us to contribute to their book. They provided us with some questions and we responded. Since the book will be in Finish, we thought that we might share our answers with you You can find out …
As cruisers, a shore kit is standard issue. If you are a self-reliant family that just rowed your dinghy to shore for a 4-mile hike to the top of a volcano on an uninhabited island… you better be ready for anything. But, I’ve found that my handy shore kit gets just as much use if …
Day 15 Date: Friday, April 27th, 2018 Time: 17:00 UTC Location: 00° 46.7’S 129° 00.5’W COG: 230° T SOG: 5 knots 24 hour distance traveled: 126 nm Distance to the Marquesas: 827 nm Greetings! We all became shellbacks at 9:35pm local time (02:35 UTC) last night. We had a little celebration before I went to …
We hope to post while we are on our way but please don’t stress if you don’t see any messages from us. Seriously, offshore communication can be finicky. I’m sending this message to try and test the last glitch in the system. I hope to post regularly. Subscribe to the blog www.vawtersonthewater.com to have the …
It is feast and famine around here! Multiple posts in one day must mean that I’m catching up AND shoving off soon. A fellow boat mother commented that the vibe in La Cruz is very different right now with all the puddle jumpers (as we are known) getting ready to take off. Much different than …
We have LONG been getting Banyan ready for our circumnavigation. In reality, we have been preparing for this since we first bought Banyan in 2014. Many of the big items are done and have served us well as we have traveled down the coast and up in the Sea of Cortez. SSB radio (check), rigging …
For the last several weeks, since we arrived in La Cruz, Mexico, we have been all about getting ready. Getting ready for what you ask? In essence, we are preparing for self-reliance. But, there is also a community element to our preparations and passage making. Tell me about this community. So, one doesn’t just …
Well, as we expected, things did not go as expected. We were supposed to have been put in the water on April 1st, but as we ran around the decks, preparing the boat, we listened with falling hearts to the engine of the travel lift not turning over… It turns out, the starter motor died …