micalvi yacht club before our first departure in nearly 3 years

Cape Horn & Antarctic expedition boats side-tide at the Micalvi. Anasazi Girl is in the middle of three rows of boats, five boats in front, four boats behind, and two boats on either side. The inlet is narrow, so a bit of logistics and organizing needed to move her out of the our berth for our first trip since our mast was broken.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (diciembre de 2016)

sunrise dientes de navarino

It's hard to believe that this was the view from our shipwreck berth at the Micalvi Yacht Club for nearly three years.

Dientes de Navarino
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (noviembre de 2016)

anasazi girl

Tarzan in the cockpit of Anasazi Girl
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antárctica Chilena (noviembre de 2016)

James & the kids on the aft deck of the Micalvi Yacht Club.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antárctica Chilena (noviembre de 2016)

Micalvi Yacht Club.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antárctica Chilena (noviembre de 2016)

pearl's 3rd birthday

Anasazi Girl's interior all done up for Pearls' 3rd birthday bash.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (20 de diciembre 2015)

Monkeys on the bar.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (20 de diciembre 2015)

Love between me & that little girl.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (20 de diciembre 2015)

dancing with dad in the cockpit

James, lucky man, gets the fist dance with Pearl on the start of her 3rd year.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (20 de diciembre 2015)

Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (20 de diciembre 2015)

Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (20 de diciembre 2015)

big sister love

There's nothing like having a big sister to do your make-up and lend you a pretty party dress for your 3rd birthday.

Tormentina gives Pearl her spa & make-up treatment before her 3rd birthday festivities.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (20 de diciembre 2015)

Pearl gets dolled up for her 3rd birthday party.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (20 de diciembre 2015)

flag-pole antics

My father used to be really good at climbing palm & coconut trees in Cambodia... Tormentina now takes it to the next level. She tells me that all you need is a little spit on the soles of your bare feet.

T on the flag-poles at the Club Naval de Yates Micalvi.
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)

trampo air time

Raivo shoots his webs aboard Angelique II
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)

cooking in the cockpit

Inside a carbon boat with zero ventilation, cooking meat, onions, and garlic is best saved for warm days like these.
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)

dumpster dive treasure

Purple suede pumps on the Micalvi Yacht Club catwalk.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (noviembrede 2015)

return to navarino

16 intensive days on the mainland... By the beginning of November 2015 (after 17 months of paperwork), we completed the last of our tramites in Punta Arenas, and our 100% foriegn owned Chilean LLC was officially initialized with the tax office of Sii. Great timing, just before the start of the summer season, to legally operate our new marine service business Anasazi Ltda. in Puerto Williams.

This milestone, combined with an agreement with Capitán de Navío Patricio Espinoza Sapunar (Naval Commander of the Beagle District & Maritime Governor of Puerto Williams) for James to work at the Micalvi Yacht Club in trade for our shipwreck moorage, put us in a better position to raise the remaining funds for our mast than we were a year before.

In between offices & paperwork we took a whirlwind road-trip with American film-maker Sam Greenfield (OBR for the 2014/15 VOR) between the cities of Punta Arenas, Puerto Natales, Puerto Prat, Puerto Consuelo, Rio Verde, and El Chalten. We shot footage, briefly reconnected with old friends & retrieved a canoe that we had left at the head park ranger's house at Parque Nacional Los Glaciares (Argentina) just before we began sailing as a family on Anasazi Girl.

After a bumpy, windy ride on DAP's twin otter, our tramite road trip came to an end, returning us home for late spring and the early summer season on Navarino Island.

Strong wind & rainbows on our bumpy approach in the Twin Otter back to Navarino.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (noviembre de 2015)

raivo's 5th

Quinto cumpleaños de Raivo - Club Naval de Yates Micalvi, Puerto Williams
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (15 de septiembre 2015)

Quinto cumpleaños de Raivo - Club Naval de Yates Micalvi, Puerto Williams
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (15 de septiembre 2015)

late winter ice

Ice & stone in the fjord.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (agosto de 2015)

Ice & stone
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (agosto de 2015)

Ice & stone
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (agosto de 2015)

Dock Line & Ice
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (agosto de 2015)

micalvi jungle gym

Fisherman's dinghy
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (agosto de 2015)

Club Naval de Yates Micalvi
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (agosto de 2015)

sv la cardinale

Pearl on the companion-way steps of Bernard de Ravignan's SV La Cardinale
Isla Navarino, CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)

cold crisp winter days

Pearl runs home on snow covered roads.
Isla Navarino, CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)

Hot embers warming cold hands.
Club Naval de Yates Micalvi, Isla Navarino, CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)

Family warm-up by the wood fire in the clubhouse of the Club Naval de Yates Micalvi.
Isla Navarino, CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)

séptimo cumpleaños de tormentina

Tormentina wacks the all-too strongly constructed papier-mâché piñata loaded with candy & foreign coins.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (2 de julio de 2015)

Tormentina with her first grade teachers Soledad Mancilla and Jeanette Quiroz.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)

Matthias, Camila, Tormentina y Valentina
Club Naval de Yates Micalvi, Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)

Dr. Victor Hugo Guerrero
Club Naval de Yates Micalvi, Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (julio de 2015)

hold on tight to the ones you love

Tormentina heads "home" from school. This means crossing a flotilla of expedition vessels that are rafted together at the Club Naval de Yates Micalvi.

Club Naval de Yates Micalvi
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (junio de 2015)

anasazi girl igloo

A. Girl at the Club Naval de Yates Micalvi
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (junio de 2015)

Snow covered Anasazi Girl and the raft of expedition vessels.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (junio de 2015)

winter solstice commute

As we approached the Winter Soltice, Tormentina's morning commute to school came well before the sunrise. This meant getting the head-lamps on before stepping through the companion-way, crossing a raft of boats to get to the land, then making the 1.5 km trip (one-way) to get from the Club Naval de Yates to the center of town in the dark.  This girl is a trooper, going regardless of the weather in the rain, snow, or moonshine. 

The massive projects of road construction and new infrastructure in Puerto Williams meant no school bus running for most of the winter season.  She is in "Primero Basico" (1st Grade) at the Liceo Donald McIntyre Griffiths and is the only English-speaking & foreign student in her school.

Tormentina (age 6) on the companion-way steps getting on her "action suit" for her commute to school.
Isla Navarino - CHILE / XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (junio de 2015)