{"id":46263,"date":"2017-02-23T02:29:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T07:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/?p=46263"},"modified":"2023-05-06T18:06:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T22:06:51","slug":"two-decades-of-cruising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/two-decades-cruising\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Decades of Cruising"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Playing in Columbia in the early days of cruising Del Viento<\/em>.<\/span>\n Michael Robertson<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n

It was twenty years ago today. St. Pepper may have been busy somewhere teaching musicians, but Windy and I were nowhere near that scene. Earlier that December we\u2019d cast off the dock lines in Ventura, California, and turned left. It was just the two of us\u2014both in our 20s\u2014aboard my little Newport 27, that was also named Del Viento. We barely knew each other, but before our 8-month voyage from Southern California to Southern Florida was over, I knew I wanted to marry her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Last week, as we prepared for bed in this little house in Ajo\u2014the one we\u2019re camping in because, as of now, it has no appliances, no heat, no hot water, few doors, non-functional windows that are spray-painted over, and a broken cement swan fountain in the front yard\u2014I thought to ask Windy what she\u2019d have done on that crisp Friday morning 20 years ago if she could have seen the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot how the future played out from then to now, just a snapshot of this moment. You’d get to see the mattress on the floor we sleep on, this truck we\u2019re driving that was already 8 years old way back then, and the gaping holes in the ceilings and walls.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019d have run like hell.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cYeah, me too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

More Photos:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n
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\n Me carrying the dinghy along a Cuban beach.\nOur old Avon Redcrest rowed so poorly that it was \neasier to carry it along the shore to the closest point\nof approach.<\/span>\n Michael Robertson<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n
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\n With our dear friend Tim, still in the Canal. There were\nfive of us living aboard little Del Viento<\/em> for our 2-day transit.<\/span>\n Michael Robertson<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n
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\n Windy pointing out a howler monkey to my dad somewhere\nin the Panama Canal.<\/span>\n Michael Robertson<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n
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\n Sailing into Acapulco.<\/span>\n Michael Robertson<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n
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\n Windy rowing away from some curious sperm whales\nin the middle of Mexico’s Sea of Cortez.<\/span>\n Michael Robertson<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n

In our twenties, we traded our boat for a house and our freedom for careers. In our thirties, we lived the American dream. In our forties, we woke and traded our house for a boat and our careers for freedom. And here we are. Follow along with the Roberston’s onboard Del Viento on their blog at www.logofdelviento.blogspot.com.<\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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