our engine broke off it’s mount..
Seeing your engine tilted out of place is never what you want to see, especially when…
Weather routing for passages
Jamie will be the first to tell you he’s not a weather router. But weather advice…
Bookaholic while cruising
Can you ever have enough books? When we bought our magic carpet in 2007, Totem’s shelf…
How do you know where to anchor?
The deceptively simple question – how do you know where to anchor? – is more nuanced…
Offshore crewing and inclusion
The catch-22 of getting offshore experience: being required to have prior offshore experience in order to…
Totem’s interim normal
A new rhythm patterns our secluded life as Totem floats off the cinder-strewn cone of Isla…
Embrace the boring
Totem recently made landfall in Baja after a placid passage of a little over three days:…