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December 31, 2015

southern crested caracara / caracara plancus / carancho

Southern crested caracara / Caracara plancus / carancho.
El Chalten, Provincia de Santa Cruz, ARGENTINA. (octubre 2015)
Southern crested caracara / Caracara plancus / carancho.
El Chalten, Provincia de Santa Cruz, ARGENTINA. (octubre 2015)

spring wildflowers in the pampas

Tormentina heads into the spring flower-filled pampas to pick a bouquet of Olsynium.
Lago Argentino, Provincia de Santa Cruz - ARGENTINA (octubre de 2015)
Olsynium
Lago Argentino, Provincia de Santa Cruz - ARGENTINA (octubre de 2015)
Tormentina's bouquet of Olsynium.
Lago Argentino, Provincia de Santa Cruz - ARGENTINA (octubre de 2015)
Olysnium
Lago Argentino, Provincia de Santa Cruz - ARGENTINA (octubre de 2015)

December 27, 2015

bark europa in the beagle channel

Chrismtas Day time travel with the Dutch tall ship Bark Europa in the Beagle Channel.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (diciembre de 2015)
Beautiful lines of the Europa.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (diciembre de 2015)

December 26, 2015

details of the bark europa

Portrait of Eric Kesteloo, Captain of the Dutch tall ship Bark Europa
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (diciembre de 2015)
Center Rig.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (diciembre de 2015)
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (diciembre de 2015)
Dorade
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (diciembre de 2015)
Helm
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (diciembre de 2015)
Lines
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (diciembre de 2015)

varen magazine (belgium) / january 2016 issue

VAREN Magazine (Belgium) / January 2016
"Zeilen laat ons als gezen groeien: De schipbruek van de Anasazi Girl"
Text (in Dutch) by Raoul de Groote & Photos by Somira Sao

Thank you Steven Vanlancker for helping to support our mast rebuild program with this story.



canal señoret, puerto natales

Jumping off beach boulders on Canal Señoret - Puerto Natales
Provinicia Última Esperanza - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
Collecting shells at sunset on the Natales shoreline.
Provinicia Última Esperanza - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)

December 22, 2015

richmond yacht club & the auckland sailing community

Our crew would like to send our heart-felt gratitude to the Richmond Yacht Club in Auckland, New Zealand for hosting a Shipwreck Party in November to help raise Kiwi dollars for our replacement mast project.  More important than the funds is the friendship that is helping us continue on this difficult rebuild project.

Auckland is very special in our hearts for many reasons, but particularly because New Zealand is the magic spot in this world where we started a family, had our third child, and got married.  It is a place where we have forged many wonderful friendships and made life-long connections.  It is a fantastic city full of great minds and big passion for sailing.

Pulling into this world port feels like coming home for our family, and for this reason, we consider Auckland to be a true home port for us.

Thank you to all our kind friends in the sailing community for all of your support and friendship & best wishes for upcoming New Year.  We appreciate all of you and look forward to sailing home again someday to make more memories.

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Many thanks to organizers, contributors and participants of this event - we wish we could have been there!

Richmond Yacht Club
Kate - Admin
Bryon Wright - Commodore

Organising Committee
Craig McDonald - Chairperson
Josh Tucker
Andy Ball
Andrew Mikkelsen

Supporters
Burnsco Marine
Issey Evers
Jereremy Stephensen / NZ Starboard SUP

Music
Phil Hart

Anasazi Girl at the Viaduct Basin hard-stand.
Auckland - NEW ZEALAND (September 2007)
A. Girl at the dock.
Viaduct Basin, Auckland - NEW ZEALAND (November 2012)
Sky tower at sunset.
Auckland - NEW ZEALAND (July 2013)
View of city skyline from A. Girl in the Waitemata Harbour
Auckland - NEW ZEALAND (December 2012)

December 12, 2015

puerto prat in late spring

Raivo Max, born in the Tetons, my wild west cowboy at heart.
Puerto Prat, Provinicia Última Esperanza - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
Nothing better than picking flowers and peeing in the pastures.
Puerto Prat, Provinicia Última Esperanza - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
Climbing the corral fence to see Nina's baby lambs.
Puerto Prat, Provinicia Última Esperanza - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
Puerto Prat, Provinicia Última Esperanza - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
Pearl our buff spring lamb.
Puerto Prat, Provinicia Última Esperanza - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
Campo de Carmendina Santana Flores.
Puerto Prat, Provinicia Última Esperanza - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
Newly born lamb at the Campo de Carmendina Santana Flores.
Puerto Prat, Provinicia Última Esperanza - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)

huerto scene, camino uno - puerto natales

The Huerto scene on Camino 1 in Puerto Natales reminds James of 1968 all over again:  drums, climbing, collections of hand-drawn topos, fires & long-haired hippies. There is a bouldering gym inside a dilapidated old horse stable filled with old mattresses that reminds me of our days of bouldering in the barn at Kevin Mahoney's farm-house in Madison, New Hampshire.

Old stable converted into a bouldering gym at La Casa de Tomas Marusic - Camino 1, Puerto Natales
Provinicia Última Esperanza- CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
Tomas Marusic, - Camino 1, Puerto Natales
Provinicia Última Esperanza- CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
All three kids pulling down - Camino 1, Puerto Natales.
Provinicia Última Esperanza- CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
Raivo Max - Camino 1, Puerto Natales
Provinicia Última Esperanza- CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
Raivo gets into the rythym thanks to Nicolas Secul Ojeda - Camino 1, Puerto Natales
Provinicia Última Esperanza- CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)

December 6, 2015

tramites for anasazi ltda.

Tramites, tramites, tramites... After 17 months of forms, we are starting to understand the trail of paperwork that is typically involved with doing business in Chile. Notaries, lawyers, tax offices, signatures, stamps, fingerprints, etc., as we finalize the paperwork needed for our Chilean LLC, Anasazi Ltda., which allows us to work legally in Chile. Opening the doors to work opportunities in Chile puts us one step closer to getting the new rig.

This last round of paperwork meant taking the whole family off the island on a DAP Airlines twin otter to Punta Arenas. Thanks to Gobernación Provincial de Antártica Chilena office in Puerto Williams for providing our family with government subsized transport off the island.

My three musketeers are always excited beyond belief to do anything outside of the daily norm.

On the tarmac at Guardia Marina Zañartu Airport
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
Boarding Aerovías DAP's twin otter plane at Guardia Marina Zañartu Airport
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
Navarino scape seen from the sky.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)

#4, a child of cabo de hornos

Baby #4, a chlid of Cabo de Hornos, is due late March / early April 2016.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (scan date / octubre de 2015)

saturday provisions

Provisions are brought to Navarino Island once a week, 300 nm through the channels & 30 hours away from Punta Arenas. This makes Saturday's provisioning the best day of the week for getting fresh fruits & vegetables.  By Monday or Tuesday it is slim pickings at the small grocery stores on the island, so we make it a point to head to town on foot with the kids, the Black Diamond 70L Touchstone Haul-bag our new "pick-up truck" for provisioning for our family of five.

Pearl climbs sails and duffels in the fore-peak, which also serves as our cold food storage area aboard Anasazi Girl.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)

life aboard anasazi girl

Tormentina in our "backyard" swinging from the boom.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
Monkeys on the grab rails.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
Tormentina makes a cold chocolate Milo in the galley.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
The scene:  Sam Greenfield on the starboard water tank, kids snacking at the nav station, and James in the port-side berth.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)

December 4, 2015

bandurria / black-faced ibis / theristicus melanopis

Bandurria / Black-faced ibis / Theristicus melanopis
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
Bandurria / Black-faced ibis / Theristicus melanopis
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
Bandurria / Black-faced ibis / Theristicus melanopis
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)

my kids' found objects / beagle channel

Spider Crab
Canal Beagle, Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
Canal Beagle, Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
Centolla
Canal Beagle, Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)
Canal Beagle, Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (octubre de 2015)