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January 21, 2022November 12, 2023

It has been a minute

I know, I know… Blogging hasn’t been high on my to-do list as of late. You see there’s been a LOT going on aboard SV Rua Hatu this last year; we’ve covered 1000s of sea miles, made it from Port Angeles, WA to Acapulco, Guerrero and back up Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, hauled out twice to scrape and schlep paint off/on the boat and to tinker with pipes, wires, lines and electricity, not to mention all the hundreds of amazing anchorages, places and people we’ve encountered along the way. So this post will be only a brief recap of goings-on, but I will try to fill in more highlights from our adventures in the months to come (as well as share more about what’s going on in real-time).

March 23, 2021June 26, 2022

Isla de Cedros, Baja California

It was late December and we dropped anchor near a small fishing village. The sleepy village lies at the foot of a 750 meter tall old volcano. Rust, orange, and sand colors prevail with grey streaks resembling ash avalanches long ago rolling down the hills of Isla de Cedros.

January 30, 2021September 3, 2023

Haulout in Humboldt

Certainly our journey through the San Juan Islands was a wonderful start to our adventures, but with nearly fifteen years worth of accumulated ablative antifouling below the waterline of Rua Hatu, the most recent of which was already two years old, we were in desperate need of a bottom job before we crossed any significant expanse of water.

January 8, 2021February 1, 2022

Offshore and Southbound

In August we finally provisioned and loaded up the boat in Port Angeles and moved to Sekiu to be ready for a suitable weather window to sail down to Eureka, California, where we intended to haul out the boat and repaint the hull.

June 14, 2020June 26, 2022

Pet life afloat

Being that we are bipedal hominids with opposable thumbs we will never truly understand or be able to convey just how our pets feel about living with us in such close quarters. Nonetheless, we have the utmost respect for all three them, for being so well behaved and unbelievably tolerant with us and each other.