Volve Ocean race 2014-15

It all starts again in 6 days:

A Taste of the Marquesas

Again from the crew of S/V Estrellita.  Some scenes from the Marquesas

MEXICO TO THE MARQUESAS

From the crew of Sv Estrellita - their adventure sailing to the Marquesas from Mexico

What We're Up To

This summer went by way too quickly.  We have not been sailing as much as we have wanted to.  Carolyn and Christopher spent a week in Edmonton sorting through all of our stored household belongings and put things into three categories:  What we will keep (only 1/6 of what we had stored), what we will sell on consignment and what we will give to charity (which was most of it).

Our transition to our life aboard a yacht is now complete and permanent.  We have divested ourselves of most of our land-based possessions.  We have downsized to what can be stored in a small land-based personal storage space and everything else is on board Terratima.  

Sobering Thought

I read this on the Facebook post by the crew of Zero to Cruising who operate a charter business in the Caribbean aboard their sailing catamaran.

"Sadly, over the years I've had several friends and family members pass away tragically. I just found out that an entire family, friends of friends, died in an accident! Off the top of my head, there is one take-home lesson here, one that I know my friends would agree with: There is no tomorrow! If there's something that you really want to do, make it happen! Don't assume that you'll have time to get to it later."

 It was a sobering read and I look at this last year that our son will be in school and believe the time to depart will be June 2015.