Weather routing for passages
Jamie will be the first to tell you he’s not a weather router. But weather advice has crept into the…
Bookaholic while cruising
Can you ever have enough books? When we bought our magic carpet in 2007, Totem’s shelf space was leaner than…
How do you know where to anchor?
The deceptively simple question – how do you know where to anchor? – is more nuanced than some imagine. In…
Offshore crewing and inclusion
The catch-22 of getting offshore experience: being required to have prior offshore experience in order to join a crew. Where…
Totem’s interim normal
A new rhythm patterns our secluded life as Totem floats off the cinder-strewn cone of Isla Coronados. Calling this the…
Embrace the boring
Totem recently made landfall in Baja after a placid passage of a little over three days: north up the coast…