Bert terHart's Epic Journey

Bert, a resident of Gabriola island, BC, left Victoria on Vancouver Island for his lifelong dream of sailing single-handed around the world, west to east, via the five capes, using only celestial navigation, and all in seven months.

Safe home for many months

01 February 2021

A farewell from the blog administrator

20 July 2020

The Pointed End

20 July 2020

Excruciating

18 July 2020

Lasts

18 July 2020

Landfall

17 July 2020

Windows

17 July 2020

Sir Salty McPorpoise

16 July 2020

Homestretch

15 July 2020

ETA Victoria - November 32, 2026

13 July 2020

None Too Soon

12 July 2020

Rollin

09 July 2020

East at Least

07 July 2020

Limits

06 July 2020

Cutting Corners

05 July 2020

A Miss

05 July 2020

Soup

04 July 2020

Wrong Way

04 July 2020

North Pacific High

04 July 2020

North Pacific High

04 July 2020

Sunrise

03 July 2020

Limits

02 July 2020

Lazy Daze

01 July 2020

"Mayday" C-Burbin Post

30 June 2020

Alone

29 June 2020

Sunset Sails

29 June 2020

Dodgeball

27 June 2020

On the Bright Side

26 June 2020

Not Nearly as Bad

26 June 2020

Clockwork

26 June 2020

No Surprise

25 June 2020

Dog Days

25 June 2020

Sir Salty McWouldbe-Admiral-And-Commander

24 June 2020

Summer Solstice

24 June 2020

Kauai

23 June 2020

Close

21 June 2020

Hawaiin Sunset

20 June 2020

Fair Fight

20 June 2020

Short-Lived

19 June 2020

ITCZ

18 June 2020

Oh Captain My Captain

13 June 2020

Pasted

12 June 2020

ITCZ

12 June 2020

End Plates

11 June 2020

Weather Eye

11 June 2020

To be published in The Gabriola Newspaper

10 June 2020

The Line

10 June 2020

Last Looks

10 June 2020

Showers

09 June 2020

Dear Agnes

09 June 2020

Weary

08 June 2020

Trades

08 June 2020

Missed Me

04 June 2020

Red Skies Part 2

03 June 2020

Red Skies

02 June 2020

Tonight's Forecast

02 June 2020

Yu Long No. 10

02 June 2020

Thankyou

31 May 2020

Malevolent

30 May 2020

Squeezed

30 May 2020

HMS Bounty

29 May 2020

Rarotongan Dusk

27 May 2020

Tropics

26 May 2020

Land Ho!!

26 May 2020

Lolligag

26 May 2020

Lazy Daze

25 May 2020

Eeking

25 May 2020

Misery

25 May 2020

Endings (b)

20 May 2020

Endings (a)

20 May 2020

Reprieve

19 May 2020

bkn - sct cu tcu

18 May 2020

Firsts

17 May 2020

Days and Nights

15 May 2020

Welcome Back

15 May 2020

Reward Enough

15 May 2020

End Around

12 May 2020

That Didn't Work

12 May 2020

Mission Critical

09 May 2020

Sunrise Moonset

07 May 2020

Neither Ahead nor Astern

05 May 2020

Not Much To Look At

03 May 2020

Last Looks

01 May 2020

Alards 4 and 5 Away!

01 May 2020

Pacific Sunrise

30 April 2020

Not good

29 April 2020

From Don

28 April 2020

A Rat

28 April 2020

Congratulations to my Husband

28 April 2020

Homeward Bound

28 April 2020

Rhumb Line

26 April 2020

1 of 3

23 April 2020

Why

22 April 2020

All too Familiar

20 April 2020

And Then There Was One

20 April 2020

The meridian and The Sounder

20 April 2020

From Nani terHart

20 April 2020

Pedal to the Metal

20 April 2020

Once More Into the Breach

18 April 2020

Leftovers

17 April 2020

Battle Hardened

17 April 2020

First Light

15 April 2020

Ahoy ShoreTeam!

14 April 2020

Not Possible

14 April 2020

He's making a list and checking it twice

13 April 2020

Cratered

12 April 2020

Alard 2 and 3

11 April 2020

Morning After

10 April 2020

Interloper

09 April 2020

From Nani

08 April 2020

Subject: 3 of 5

07 April 2020

Cape Leeuwin

07 April 2020

Whats for Dinner

06 April 2020

The Start

06 April 2020

Signed Sealed and Delivered

04 April 2020

Joke's On Me

01 April 2020

About the Ocean Cruising Club

30 March 2020

Ocean Cruising Club

30 March 2020

Tough Day at the Plant

29 March 2020

Real Food

28 March 2020

Red Skies

27 March 2020

Silver Linings

25 March 2020

Good Before

24 March 2020

The Shift

23 March 2020

Firsts

22 March 2020

There's a Will

21 March 2020

One Can Only Hope

21 March 2020

Reprieve

20 March 2020

Getting East

18 March 2020

Somehow

17 March 2020

Some Where There Should Be None

16 March 2020

Never a Moments Rest

16 March 2020

The Fun Never Ends

15 March 2020

All is well that ends well

14 March 2020

Lunchbucket

12 March 2020

Contrasts

11 March 2020

My World

10 March 2020

Double-edged Sword

09 March 2020

Abominations

09 March 2020

Favourites

08 March 2020

Out of Gas

07 March 2020

Repeat as Required

06 March 2020

When To Quit

06 March 2020

Changes

05 March 2020

No Clue Whatsoever

05 March 2020

Almost

04 March 2020

For You Pilots

04 March 2020

Light Wind Morning

04 March 2020

All Business

04 March 2020

Update on the Sponge Bob

03 March 2020

Masterpiece Theatre Presents

03 March 2020

Sir Salty McWorked-To-The-Bone Promoted

02 March 2020

Feast

02 March 2020

Moody

29 February 2020

Picture Perfect

28 February 2020

The Path

28 February 2020

SpongeBob

27 February 2020

Nervous

27 February 2020

Compromises

26 February 2020

Potatoes from Space

26 February 2020

#2 of 5

25 February 2020

Welcome

24 February 2020

Picture Pefect

23 February 2020

Done Deal

23 February 2020

Morning After

22 February 2020

Almost

21 February 2020

Red Sky In the Morning

20 February 2020

Gray Days

19 February 2020

Spit and Bubblegum

19 February 2020

Arts and Crafts Day

17 February 2020

Delicacies

17 February 2020

Mixed Bag

16 February 2020

Prime Time

16 February 2020

Happy Valentine Day

15 February 2020

I spy...

14 February 2020

Business End

14 February 2020

Magic

13 February 2020

Followed

13 February 2020

Remnants

12 February 2020

Shape Shifter

12 February 2020

Red Sky at Night

10 February 2020

Waiting for Wind

09 February 2020

The Fun Never Ends

09 February 2020

Crew Wanted!

09 February 2020

DR Errors

08 February 2020

Beauty and the Best

08 February 2020

Boisterous

07 February 2020

Ain't Much

07 February 2020

Many Moons

07 February 2020

Off the Deep End

07 February 2020

Fed Up

07 February 2020

Credit

04 February 2020

Reaching at last

03 February 2020

Promotions

02 February 2020

Company

02 February 2020

Great Guns

01 February 2020

Enough Already

31 January 2020

Wherefore Art Thou, Oh GPS?

30 January 2020

Records

30 January 2020

From 40 to Flat

29 January 2020

The lows that blow

29 January 2020

Hand Modeling

29 January 2020

Cape Party-celebration #1

29 January 2020

What You Know

28 January 2020

Anew

28 January 2020

Companionway Sunset

28 January 2020

Boaring to Roaring

27 January 2020

Boring 40s

25 January 2020

How Many

25 January 2020

Sunset

25 January 2020

What to do?

24 January 2020

Fair Winds

24 January 2020

Farewelll Argentina

24 January 2020

Bird’s Eye View

23 January 2020

Low Blow

23 January 2020

South Atlantic Sunrise

22 January 2020

All the wrong places

21 January 2020

Not Again

21 January 2020

Off and running

20 January 2020

Leaving Stanley

20 January 2020

From All of Us Here on the Falklands

19 January 2020

What are the chances of that?

19 January 2020

Kindness

18 January 2020

So hard to say goodbye

18 January 2020

Reprovisioning

18 January 2020

North Shore

16 January 2020

Ironies

16 January 2020

Stanley

16 January 2020

Catenary

16 January 2020

Anchored at Port Stanley

16 January 2020

Wirectomy

16 January 2020

Not So Calm Anymore

14 January 2020

Port Stanley Sunset

14 January 2020

Stanley

14 January 2020

Land Ahead Off The Bow

14 January 2020

Maintenance Time

13 January 2020

Arts and Crafts Day

13 January 2020

Laundry Day

13 January 2020

Snert

11 January 2020

Burwood Bank Blues

11 January 2020

The View

10 January 2020

Cruel Jokes

09 January 2020

Hideaway

09 January 2020

Constant Companions

09 January 2020

Thataway

09 January 2020

A Place Among Places

09 January 2020

At Cape Horn

08 January 2020

One down, four to go

08 January 2020

Mountaintop

07 January 2020

Baby its cold outside

06 January 2020

Course field is fixed

06 January 2020

Same as it ever was, Same as it ever was..

06 January 2020

Constant Companions

06 January 2020

More Like It

05 January 2020

Sunset 53S

04 January 2020

Temper Temper

04 January 2020

Mixed Bag

04 January 2020

Low Rider

02 January 2020

Institutionalized

02 January 2020

You're at 51s when

02 January 2020

Halyard Makeover

01 January 2020

Twins

01 January 2020

New Years Eve 50S

01 January 2020

Going Out With a Bang

31 December 2019

Bar Fight!

31 December 2019

DDW

31 December 2019

The Doors

31 December 2019

Nightmare

30 December 2019

Benjamins

30 December 2019

Waiting Games

29 December 2019

Days Like Today

29 December 2019

Days Off

27 December 2019

Crew

26 December 2019

Deck the Halls

26 December 2019

X-mas gifts

26 December 2019

Aloha & Merry Christmas my wonderful Husband,

26 December 2019

Christmas Mornimg, 40 10S 106 35W

25 December 2019

It's Christmas in the Pacific

24 December 2019

Baker's Hours

24 December 2019

Santa's Workshop

24 December 2019

What's in a picture

24 December 2019

And it's outta here!

24 December 2019

Xmas Baking

24 December 2019

Christmas Eve

24 December 2019

Calm before the storm

24 December 2019

Small spaces, big things

24 December 2019

Storm Clouds

23 December 2019

Front Row Seating

23 December 2019

Swell

23 December 2019

Not that hungry

22 December 2019

Winch vs Front

21 December 2019

Wardrobe

20 December 2019

Going Going Gone

20 December 2019

Once More Into the Breach

19 December 2019

Golden

18 December 2019

Ever So Carefully

18 December 2019

Late

17 December 2019

Upside Down

16 December 2019

Gam

16 December 2019

Who is Salty?

14 December 2019

Rampant Nakedness

14 December 2019

Sunrise

14 December 2019

My Mom Said

14 December 2019

Cumulus Hanger-Ons

13 December 2019

Bubba Gump Shrimp

13 December 2019

Hope

13 December 2019

A Proper Dousing

13 December 2019

Repeat as Required

12 December 2019

Sandwiich Spread

11 December 2019

I Spy

11 December 2019

What Works

11 December 2019

180' Tradewind Skies

11 December 2019

I Dare Not

10 December 2019

Ghosting

10 December 2019

Ships

10 December 2019

Back in Business

09 December 2019

Dawn

08 December 2019

Squalls

08 December 2019

Gang aft agley

07 December 2019

Troughs

07 December 2019

Birthday Wishes

07 December 2019

Big Blue

07 December 2019

And Then There Were Two

07 December 2019

Atta Boy Asym

06 December 2019

Dawn

06 December 2019

Say Sailor...

06 December 2019

Army Breakfast

05 December 2019

Relief

05 December 2019

Salty's sunglasses

05 December 2019

Sylvie Says

05 December 2019

Windless

05 December 2019

Darkness

05 December 2019

Tradewind Sunsets

04 December 2019

Tantalizing

04 December 2019

Salty Turns 2895

03 December 2019

Back in Business

03 December 2019

Magic

02 December 2019

Party Time

02 December 2019

Becalmed

02 December 2019

Finally

02 December 2019

Coincidences

02 December 2019

Burnt Offerings

02 December 2019

Diamonds Are A Sailor's Best Friend

02 December 2019

Feast or Famine

02 December 2019

A Special Birthday Message, from Bert's beautiful Nani.

01 December 2019

Gossamer

01 December 2019

The Green Flash

01 December 2019

More Cowbell

30 November 2019

Casualties - (Photo is Don's, not Bert's this time)

30 November 2019

Perpetual Motion

30 November 2019

Cloud Companions

30 November 2019

Dawn Patrol

28 November 2019

Settled

28 November 2019

Charts

28 November 2019

Line Crossing Celebration

27 November 2019

Nothing But Blue

27 November 2019

Newsflash - EQUATOR!

27 November 2019

Arts and Crafts

27 November 2019

Ship Shape

27 November 2019

Race To The Equator

27 November 2019

Cowboy Hats

26 November 2019

And now for something completely different

26 November 2019

Mutiny

26 November 2019

Cocked Hats

26 November 2019

Peaceful Endings

26 November 2019

Raring To Go

25 November 2019

What's In A Name Part 2

25 November 2019

Randall Was Right

25 November 2019

What's In A Name Part 3

25 November 2019

What's In A Name

24 November 2019

Are We There Yet?

23 November 2019

Partners

23 November 2019

Company for Dinner

23 November 2019

Nobody Would Believe You

22 November 2019

You Are Not Supposed To Pick Up Hitchhikers

22 November 2019

I remember when..

22 November 2019

Water Water Everywhere

21 November 2019

Building Conditions

21 November 2019

Diamonds

21 November 2019

Farmer's Breakfast

21 November 2019

Not Every Day

21 November 2019

Where There is Work

21 November 2019

The One That Got Away

20 November 2019

Storm Chaser

20 November 2019

Tropical Squals

20 November 2019

Sailing Fast

19 November 2019

Showers, chance of isloated thundershowers

19 November 2019

Tools of the trade

19 November 2019

Perfect Tradewind Cumulus

19 November 2019

Sunrise

18 November 2019

Sausage McBurban

18 November 2019

Clear Sailing

18 November 2019

Its the little things

17 November 2019

Disclaimer: No animals were harmed in the taking of this picture.

17 November 2019

There Be Dragons

17 November 2019

No mistaking these...

16 November 2019

Crossings

16 November 2019

Three's A Crowd

15 November 2019

Gone

15 November 2019

Sunset Racing

15 November 2019

Complex Clouds

14 November 2019

Making Tracks

14 November 2019

Subject: Heading West

14 November 2019

Can you believe it blue

14 November 2019

All quiet on the western front

14 November 2019

Old Man and The Sea

14 November 2019

Trouble Brewing

13 November 2019

The B Word

13 November 2019

Busy Day at the Plant

13 November 2019

Night Sweats. 😅

12 November 2019

Spinnaker Work

11 November 2019

Any Fool

11 November 2019

Abyssal Plains

11 November 2019

Last of the "Cohicans"

10 November 2019

Third Time Lucky

10 November 2019

Slumgullion

10 November 2019

A Charmed Life

09 November 2019

Crew

09 November 2019

Impossibly Blue

09 November 2019

Night Moves

09 November 2019

Special Delivery

09 November 2019

Dolphins

09 November 2019

San Francisco

09 November 2019

A Job of Work

09 November 2019

On the way

09 November 2019

Departure

09 November 2019