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Life at sea

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April 12, 2021

I found this passage recently. I dog-eared the page (yes, it’s in a real book made of paper!) and I keep coming back and re-reading it:

There’s nothing in the life of a sailor quite like the outbound leg of his first real sea voyage. There’s no pride like the…


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Home

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March 26, 2021

I would imagine that for most people “home” is a relatively static concept. It is a structure where you live – it is where you sleep, make meals, feel comfortable, and keep your stuff. By that definition, it is a simple concept for us too; Halcyon is our home….


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Cruising in place: our approach to coping with the pandemic

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April 21, 2020

John and I have been inadvertently training for the coronavirus. We are highly accustomed to spending long periods of time squinched up together in a small space with no other human contact and very limited supplies. We are always dependent on the whims of a greater force to determine…


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A thanksgiving thought

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November 28, 2019

By John Guillote

The release of the latest UN climate report tells us, yet again, that our planet may be in worse shape than we had previously thought.

While this news does not
necessarily come as a shock, it has struck a deep chord in me on this
Thanksgiving Day, when we…


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To my favorite Halcyon Wandering VIP-subscribers…

on
October 31, 2019

Well, we have left Halcyon to fend for herself in the Marquesas for a few months. Right now, our squiggly path of life is pulling us along into the Arctic. And so we wander… 

John and I leave this Tuesday to get on a 260’ icebreaker with 2 science teams…


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Off the Beaten Tack

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September 26, 2019

We tend to sail a little bit off the beaten tack.

Instead of leaving from Mexico to sail to French Polynesia,
we continued south to explore Central America for a season. When we got to
Panama, instead of sticking close to the Perlas islands, we wandered up the
rivers of the Darien…


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Amateur anchoring, some hungry strangers and an unexpected crew member

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August 5, 2019

A month ago, I was pretty sure we had anchored in every
situation. We have anchored with 2 feet of water below the keel and in 70 feet
of water. We have anchored with strong winds pushing one way and a strong
current pushing another. Our anchor has dug in (or sometimes…


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Finding Paradise

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June 27, 2019

Like most cruisers (and almost-cruisers) these days, we
spent hours on YouTube before we left, watching people just like us finding
paradise. Amateur videos full of epic drone shots of the boat on some remote
tropical island in mirror-like water, surrounded by healthy coral structures
and sandy islands dotted with palm trees, the…


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A day in the passage life: Part 3 – The Hole

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May 30, 2019

That ideal trade wind sailing didn’t last like we wanted it to. As we tracked further south, we sailed right into a hole with no wind at all, and now that hole has expanded out in front of us all the way to the Gambiers. We only have about…


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A day in the passage life: Part 2 – the trades

on
May 23, 2019

We have finally hit the trades! The southeast trade winds
are a band of ideal wind and current that stretches from here all the way to
French Polynesia. This band brings a steady 15-20 knots of wind on our stern
with sunny skies dotted with only the occasional cumulus cloud. It is…

John and Becca Guillote

John is the photographer. He portrays the layers of history, emotion, spirit and culture in each moment through his application of light, perspective, and detail. He also takes pictures.

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