Anasazi Racing

Anasazi Girl - Table Bay, South Africa
Photography by BRYAN TRAYLOR, Locker 14: http://www.locker14.com/

ABOUT ANASAZI RACING

Anasazi Racing is James Burwick, Somira Sao and their three small children Tormentina, Raivo Max, and Pearl (ages 4, 2, & 4 months old).

They are a family of five, making long distance ocean passages on a 40' performance sailboat.

They started their voyage in Portland, Maine (USA) and proceeded to sail trans-Atlantic to Cherbourg, France; then trans-equatorial to Cape Town, South Africa; across the Southern Ocean to Fremantle, Western Australia; through the Australian Bight & Bass Strait to Melbourne; and across the Tasman Sea over North Island New Zealand to Auckland.

The sailing vessel, Anasazi Girl, is an Open 40 designed by Finot-Conq. She is a high tech carbon rocket-ship able to make fast long ocean passages similar to alpine climbers who climb light and fast.

JAMES is a professional climber & sailor with a vast foundation of experience in extreme environments. He has sailed 30,000 miles solo around the world, was an alpine mountain guide for 32 years (6000+ meter peaks), trained & worked search & rescue dogs (cadavers/explosives), did avalanche rescue & recovery, and developed handicap adaptive sports programs in Colorado and Norway.

SOMIRA was born in a Khmer Rouge work camp during the Pol Pot regime. She escaped & immigrated with her parents to the United States at age 4 as a Cambodian refugee. She worked in Cambodia with AUSAID & Australian Red Cross to document their landmine survivors program. She is a professional photographer, adventurer, glass artist and mother of three.

TORMENTINA and RAIVO are world travelers. Tormentina has been to 20 different countries and Raivo to 12. They have sailed over 19,000 ocean miles; descended Argentina's Rio Santa Cruz (400km from the Patagonian ice cap to the sea); cycle toured Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, the Atacama Desert, & Southern Iceland; and horse-packed through the rainforests of the Cocahomó River Valley in Chile.

The kids have spent the first years of their lives surrounded by a tribe of world class athletes – alpinists, rock climbers, skiers, base jumpers, high-liners & pro sailors.

They have never lived regularly in a house. Their gypsy homes have been expedition tents, cargo vans, cargo trailers, hotel rooms, and now a carbon-fibre composite racing boat.

PEARL was born in Auckland, New Zealand on December 20, 2012. In the womb, she made passages through the Southern Ocean, Australian Bight, Bass Strait, and the Tasman Sea. She moved onto the boat when she was less than a day old.

Anasazi Racing

June 6, 2011

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