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Boatlearners
How does school happen in this cruising lifestyle? The truth: it doesn't.Read More
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MOE-GEE-OAT-EH
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.Read More
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Cruising Out of the Moment
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,...
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There's This Place...
I’ve never seen any place like this place. It seems to have everything, absent the drawbacks of having everything.Read More
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Japanese Translation Needed
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.Read More
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Ocean Motion
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 began to rise and fall in the large, gentle ocean...
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Astoria, Force 10
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.Read More
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A Near Disaster
Michael Robertson recalls the night that he almost lost Del Viento and his family in a chain of events that spanned about five minutes.Read More
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Could Have Been Prevented?
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.Read More
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MOE-GEE-OAT-EH
Del Viento- EleanorMichael RobertsonEleanor rejoicing in the mist, wind, and noise before the base of the Baranof falls.In this traveling life, I’m always a visitor, wherever I am. I’m transient, not...
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Cruising Out of the Moment
Del Viento- Glacier BayWindy RobertsonOur first anchorage in Glacier Bay.“I guess I was underwhelmed.” I said to Windy.“You’re kidding?”“No, I guess I expected more.”She was speechless. Then she...
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There's This Place...
Del Viento- Tenakee SpringsWindy RobertsonThis is a glimpse of Snyder's Mercantile. The food isn't priced like Safeway, but the selection is good. That cash register has been there for a long, long...
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Japanese Translation Needed
Del Vineto- Japanese debrisMichael RobertsonAnd this is the most unusual thing we've come across. It's filled with dense foam and covered in black vinyl, hand sewn onto it. I'd like to learn what it is...
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Ocean Motion
Del Viento- mooringMichael RobertsonThe girls on a mooring we found just beneath Cape Scott, BC. Note our as-of-yet seldom-used Code Zero on its foil-less furler ahead of our furled jib. It's been...
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Astoria, Force 10
Astoria, Force 10Michael RobertsonThey could only stand on top of the breakwater for a couple minutes. Note the clumps of spindrift in the air.We left Port Angeles, WA the morning of Wednesday,...
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A Near Disaster
Del Viento- fogMichael RobertsonDel Viento heading into the fog a month ago, en route to Prince Rupert, Canada.I’m not a great sailor, not even a very good one. But I enjoy moving from one place to...
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West Coast Crew
Del Viento- motoringMichael RobertsonJohn and Windy motoring in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.In the spring of 2010, I emailed John and Cindy of Port Ludlow, WA. I’d learned online that they owned...
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Could Have Been Prevented?
Del Viento- stormMichael RobertsonThis was Del Viento on her lee dock during the September storm in Astoria. In the few times we were aboard and checking the anemometer, it gusted to 60 knots, but it...
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