Close to nature and at her whim
08. Interview with Roger D. Brown on SV Tropic Tramp/United States. After building houses in his spare time and working in railroad crash clean ups for most of his life, Roger has been cruising since he bought Tropic Tramp in 1994. He has sailed from …
Salvador Cabrales of Astilleros Cabrales, born in Phoenix AZ, is a third generation boat builder and passionate about all things boat and Puerto Peñasco, the town he grew up in before moving back to Phoenix as a teenager. Salvador oversees the pleasure boat services for Astilleros …
07. Interview with Marie-France Cantin & Mike Knapp on SV Déjàlà/Canada. Marie-France and Mike wanted a classic sailboat with high-tech brains. Carefully renovated, she has an electric engine and the most energy efficient electronic systems available. Just after we had anchored in Bahía de los Ángeles we heard a call …
06. Interview with Elizabeth Baggs & Alan Bradley on SV Vivacia/USA. Just before retirement, Elizabeth and Alan envisioned what they wanted to do and how they would want to live. They decided that cruising might be a great idea. Elisabeth had been a sailor when she was …
05. Interview with Leslie & Andrew Godfrey on SV Sonrisa/USA. Right out of college, Leslie & Andrew devised a ten-year plan to prepare for their sail around the world. They stuck to this plan, which included learning how to sail, saving enough money, finding the right boat and …
04. Interview with Margie Hewes & Bob Balman on SV Blessed Life/USA. After cruising Mexico for 8 months on a Catalina 30 in 2012 and traveling the US for a couple of years with a camper truck, this athletic couple fell in love with kite surfing …
03. Interview with Adriana Mascoli Fontes & Alexandre Fontes on SV Pesto/Brasil. After leaving high powered corporate jobs, Adriana and Alex have been cruising with their kids since the summer of 2014. They have sailed down the Pacific coast from Seattle to Mexico and then crossed the …
02. Interview with Debbie and Phil Perfitt on SV Coastal Drifter/Canada. Since they left Canada in 2013, the Perfitts sailed from Canada, down the West Coast of the US and to Mexico with their grandkids and crossed the Pacific in April of 2017. The interview …
01. Interview with Cherry and Alec Yarrow on SV Rainbow Gipsy/South Africa. This amazing couple has been on the seas since 2008. Starting in South Africa, they sailed through Asia to China, Japan, the Northern Pacific to Alaska and south to San Diego, where we met …