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A First: New Crew

A FirstIt's on.We've busted out of the sticky embrace of our first landfall and ventured into that live-by-your-wits, incredibly dynamic, surprise-a-minute experience that is sailing into the vast...

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Chiloé Island

Chiloé Island - it's just famous enough that we'd heard of it before we arrived. Bruce Chatwin, a few glowing reports from friends who have been here before us - it was enough that this place was on...

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Roller Coaster

SpawnedI was awoken in the middle of the night by the unmistakable sound of water rushing past our hull.We had anchored towards the head of Estero Pailad, a long fjord-shaped bay that opens up into...

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Keepin' On

It's only really travel if you're on a roller coaster. There have to be the heady highs and, inevitably, the Stygian lows that keep them company. I first learned that when I was traveling by bus...

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Two Sides of Chiloé Island

The month of February, 2015 - it'll never come again.We might have done any number of things with that month, but what we actually did was to explore Chiloé - both the east coast of Chiloé Island...

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Always

Always the farthest peaks appear the fairest. -Rockwell Kent, VoyagingMy alarm goes off at 0630. After preparatory rounds of galley (instant coffee), computer (weather download), and engine room (oil,...

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The Five (or Six or Seven or Eight) Day Blow

It's a funny thing when some place is described as the best in its category. South Pacific Anchorages refers to Ra'ivavae as possibly the most beautiful anchorage in the South Pacific. Predictably, we...

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Tick on an Elephant

There are at 16 longliners rafted up here in Caleta Suarez. Galactic is boat number 17, on the far side of the front row, right up against the side of the caleta. During a brief break in the weather...

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The Switch

With the Gulf of Sorrows was behind us, a whole 'nother set of questions presented itself.The weather forecast was from a different world from the one we had been inhabiting in the northern canales. If...

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South American Adventure

The Thing With PicturesDays like this, you don't get pictures of.We arrived in Puerto Natales late yesterday, just in time to sniff out a place of rest in this notoriously un-welcoming anchorage. The...

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Home is Where the Ship is

Home is wherever the Mothership is.And that's where we are now. Back on Galactic in Puerto Williams with our 200 (?) kilos of food and baggage after five weeks away and 90 hours of travel, door to...

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Lessons Learned in Puerto Williams

LessonsOne of the recurring themes of our travels is what a bubble we sometimes operate in on board Galactic. When we're out on the water or anchored up in some lonely cove, we're separated from...

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A New Ocean

A New OceanIn our last frantic days of getting ready to leave Puerto Williams I thought of how leaving port is just a little like dying.I'm not talking about a metaphor here, but simply about the...

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Arriving in Stanley

When we left Alaska to sail to Australia with our toddler for crew, we thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. But then we had our second child, and bought our second boat, and sailed across the...

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Penguins in the Falklands

When we left Alaska to sail to Australia with our toddler for crew, we thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. But then we had our second child, and bought our second boat, and sailed across the...

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Tasmania: The Best for Last

Mike LitzowOf our two boys, Elias inherited the stronger stomach. As we made our final approach to Port Davey on the southwest coast of Tasmania, he helped us watch for landmarks on the rocky...

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Running With the Big Dogs

Destinations Galactic has left Cape Town behind and shifted around the Cape of Good Hope to Simon's Town. Galactic has left Cape Town behind and shifted around the Cape of Good Hope to Simon's Town.

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To Haul or Not to Haul

Galactic gets hauled for the first time in over a year, but the results are less than damaging. Galactic gets hauled for the first time in over a year, but the results are less than damaging.

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What about the Weather?

The question inevitably always comes up about cruising around the world, what about the weather? The question inevitably always comes up about cruising around the world, what about the weather?

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Winter on the Cape

With a mild winter in Cape Town, the Litzows are sitting tight before they begin the next step of their journey. With a mild winter in Cape Town, the Litzows are sitting tight before they begin the...

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