Safe home for many months
Hello to all Bert's followers on his amazing voyage. Don Butt here, the administrator of Bert's blog.
Bert arrived safely home to Gabriola Island first of August, 2020 after a two-week stay in Victoria, BC, his first landfall in 266 days. As...
Bert arrived safely home to Gabriola Island first of August, 2020 after a two-week stay in Victoria, BC, his first landfall in 266 days. As...
A farewell from the blog administrator
It's Don Butt here, a friend of Bert and Nani, a fellow instructor in the Gabriola Power and Sail Squadron (CPS-ECP), and the administrator for the blog documenting Bert's epic voyage around the world. Bert has sent via satellite daily accounts of his...
The Pointed End
Infantry soldiers are sometimes referred to as the pointed end of the stick. It is that end that does all the damage. It is that end you notice. The rest of the stick, the vast majority of it, is lost in a veil of tears. Back in my day, for every soldier in...
Excruciating
I have been sailing at 1 knot or less for hours towards a tidal gate at Race Rocks I know is closed to me by a strong ebb. It is agonizingly close, but I am travelling at an excruciating pace.
The only saving grace beyond what lies just 8 mils...
The only saving grace beyond what lies just 8 mils...
Lasts
Th 5 Capes Voyage has been a never ending parade of firsts for me. An incredibly diverse journey that has surpassed all that I could have imagined it to be. And suddenly, in a blink of an eye, the lasts come tumbling at me too fast to bring into focus let...
Landfall
At 0635 local (1535Z) 17 July the mountains bordering the west coast of Vancouver Island rose out of the fog that has been tracking us East. Landfall. In Canada.
Who would have believed it a year ago? I was barely able to dream it, let alone...
Who would have believed it a year ago? I was barely able to dream it, let alone...
