Circumnavigation 2020 onwards
Sharing our adventure with friends
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Highlight reel! With our friends on SV Anne Charlotte, we crossed the India Ocean, stopping in the Maldives and Socotra, heading up the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, transiting the Suez Canal and arriving in the Mediterranean.
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Arrival in Antigua
Underway, Ian sleeps in the saloon so he’s close by if I call him. But this time, he called me when the boat started taking…
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Sint Maarten
Ian has this way of being a bit reckless. He spear fishes without a buddy, he walks on tropical grass with open-toed shoes, and after…
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Life lesson
As one would suspect, I became a bit unhinged in the transition from managing a busy maternity floor to fretting if the zippers of the…
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Boats that float
The thing about boats is that no natural force believes they should exist, except maybe buoyancy, and even it permits a boat to exist only…
● About Us
Yo! It’s Ann and Ian on our 1984 Wauquiez Amphitrite. Photos & blog by Ann, keeping us afloat and moving forward by Ian.
● Of interest
The UN High Seas Treaty came into force Jan 17 2026 – we can have 30% of Oceans a marine park and have a well-regulated global fisheries. Lobby your government if they have not yet ratified it. Looking at you Canada!
Great podcast from Outside Magazine about military parajumper training in breath holding
See this story of Cook Islanders shipwrecked on Minerva Reef in 60s (film coming soon)
BBC Planet Earth: pack hunting – first documentation of snakes hunting the marine iguana in Galapagos
Book Rec’d: Christina Thompson The Sea People on ancient Polynesian Navigation (this is sooo good)
