A very busy winter is behind us!

In northern Ontario winter is not a time to hibernate, rather can opportunity to get ahead on a number of projects. The winter of 2016/17 was no different: preparations for the trip of a lifetime took a lot of careful planning and coordination. Repairs and maintenance to our canvas, purchase of spares, lining up required vaccinations, thinking about safety, safety, safety.

We purchased a 4-person life raft, a ditch bag, and an EPIRP. We hope we never have to use these things, but have them " just in case". We also bought a ParaTech sea anchor for weathering storms at sea. We lined up insurance, and made numerous preparations to transition from our life on land to the life at sea.

Finally we launched our dear VATA on April 21, 2017!!

But spring is taking her time in 2017, and we've had many cold nights.