Exploring the world on a Vancouver 36
Lessons we’ve learned and items we like.
Greetings from sleepy Turtle Cay Marina during the peak of summer and the Atlantic hurricane season. While Janine visited Europe, I spent my days working on various boat projects, hiking with Kiwi and enjoying the remote Caribbean coastline. Take a look at what happened while the storms raged offshore.
Continue reading “Worlds Apart – Summer 2023 in Panama”
Since much of our time in Panama had been spent building our new dinghy, we took the last few weeks to catch up on some much needed boat maintenance as we get ready to depart for South America. We headed back to Las Perlas to get back to work and enjoy some empty anchorages.
Continue reading “Playing Catch-Up”
Since moving onboard, we’ve struggled to find the right dinghy to meet our daily driving needs. Thus far we’ve worn through two inflatable dinghies, repaired (and re-repaired, and re-re-repaired) our aging inflatable SUP, and nearly sunk ourselves on multiple occasions in the tiny sailing dinghy that came with Rua Hatu. So after surveying all of our options, we chose to build something that would more closely match our needs for a stowable, durable and fun dinghy. And what better place to build a boat than a beautiful, uninhabited island in the Gulf of Panama! Read on to see how we turned a pile of plywood, fiberglass and epoxy into quite possibly the coolest new dinghy we could have ever hoped for!
Continue reading “Boatyard on the Beach”
It is that time in a boat owners’ life when the sailboat is in need of a new wardrobe.
Continue reading “The Quest for New Sails”
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”