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<\/a><\/a><\/a>Kathy and I have shared many adventures in the three decades we’ve been together, including an eight-month trip from Montreal to Quito when we were half as old. Most of it was along secondary (and even tertiary) roads in an old and beaten-up Jeep Cherokee we christened\u00a0El Caleuche<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00d1and\u00fa is our latest adventure and it will be our home for the next year or ten. While we have experience sailing and had chartered boats before, we had never been on a boat for more than ten days in a row. We knew that making a boat our home was going to be a challenge. We knew that at times we were going to be cold, tired and scared. And we were right, but we went many times through all that same kind of misery aboard El Caleuche, yet it was a profound experience for us.<\/p>\n We both learned to sail keelboats with Pacific Sailing<\/a> in Santa Cruz, California. Latitude 38<\/a> magazine helped keeping the dream alive. And we mastered\u00a0many practical tricks from Captains Steven Phillips, Leslie Waters and Ralph Drahos.<\/p>\n [Latitute 38 wrote\u00a0a piece on \u00d1and\u00fa based on this blog: direct link here<\/a>, pdf here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n Sadly, our dear Oliver is not with us anymore<\/a>. We are no longer cruising<\/a> on \u00d1and\u00fa, but on our new four-wheeled vessel \u00d1u<\/a>.<\/p>\nAcknowledgements<\/h3>\n
Updates to the above<\/h3>\n
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