Exploring the world on a Vancouver 36
Change is in the air aboard Rua Hatu this month! Lots of change! Not just onboard either, the world seems to be changing at an increasingly erratic pace (hang in there Ukraine 🇺🇦). Though our boat has been relatively stationary in La Paz for far longer than we anticipated, that certainly hasn’t kept the crew and our friends and family from roaming about the universe.
Continue reading “Ends and Beginnings”
My family, the Taggarts, were in town visiting last week. Five days of visiting beaches, walking the Malecon, snorkeling with whale sharks, and eating delicious food.
Continue reading “The family is in town”
I know, I know… Blogging hasn’t been high on my to-do list as of late. You see there’s been a LOT going on aboard SV Rua Hatu this last year; we’ve covered 1000s of sea miles, made it from Port Angeles, WA to Acapulco, Guerrero and back up Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, hauled out twice to scrape and schlep paint off/on the boat and to tinker with pipes, wires, lines and electricity, not to mention all the hundreds of amazing anchorages, places and people we’ve encountered along the way. So this post will be only a brief recap of goings-on, but I will try to fill in more highlights from our adventures in the months to come (as well as share more about what’s going on in real-time).
Continue reading “It has been a minute”
Certainly our journey through the San Juan Islands was a wonderful start to our adventures, but with nearly fifteen years worth of accumulated ablative antifouling below the waterline of Rua Hatu, the most recent of which was already two years old, we were in desperate need of a bottom job before we crossed any significant expanse of water.
Continue reading “Haulout in Humboldt”
Being that we are bipedal hominids with opposable thumbs we will never truly understand or be able to convey just how our pets feel about living with us in such close quarters. Nonetheless, we have the utmost respect for all three them, for being so well behaved and unbelievably tolerant with us and each other.
Continue reading “Pet life afloat”