Captain's Log

One Ocean lays at anchor in Bahia Tilly on the Strait of Magellan, 226 nm northwest of Cape Horn, 6,600 nm miles southeast of her home port, Anacortes, Washington, logging 17,136 nm in 324 days to visit this beautiful and secure little bay. More than a lifetime of sailing miles for most sailors, a

Few descriptions of sailing ships rounding Cape Horn are as vivid and well-written as David Grann's account in his book Wager. Since we anchored very near that ship's final resting place his words carry more weight than other histories I've read. During our final approach to Cape Horn his words

Sailing from Puerto Montt to the entrance of Penas is straightforward navigation-wise, not so much weather-wise. The channels, islands and hazards along this 120nm stretch are well documented and scenic. Protected from the prevailing westerly winds this leg of the voyage is relatively calm. The

In 1982 Warren Least Heat Moon followed 13,000 miles of little roads around America after he lost his teaching job and separated from his wife. His was a voyage of leaving something behind and immersing himself in something new. His book from that voyage, Blue Highways, published in 1982, went with

-c1300 hrs, 276nm west of Peru-Chile border A Point in Time Off watch, sometime between napping and sleeping an unfamiliar alarm went off. A few moments wasted to make sure it wasn’t just in my head, and then more alarms. Something important was happening, urgency required. Nap done, now I’m very

This morning I've muttered (mostly to myself) a dozen times that it's time to leave Peru and head south. I woke up wanting to be on the move rather than tied to a buoy a hundred yards or so from the Yacht Club Peruano. Part of my impatience to get going is purely from looking at the time and

S/V One Ocean Anatomy of a knockdown North Atlantic Passage Halifax/Lockport to Bermuda 0930 hrs, October 17, 2025 37d31m N/66d44m W Seas 15 - 30' Barometer 1002 falling Wind 25 - 35kts Main triple reef, mizzen down, jib 1/4 Apparent wind angle 160 - 180d Boat speed 5.5 - 8+ (all good, seas/swell

Moments and stories: Around the Americas I hope it is normal for someone of a certain age to vividly remember titles of books or headers in a drawer full of files and then notice some details, backstories and descriptions are a little fuzzy, or missing altogether. It could be the case that after

Full disclaimer - may not be worth taking your TIME to read this bit of musing. The concept of time takes on many different meanings in all of our lives, literally all of the time. On a boat it is ever-present. Schedules and routines are regulated and occur based on some measure of time. Directions

Featured Image by David Thoreson "Sailing vessels have destinations, not schedules," an oft repeated adage spoken by experienced sailors of a certain age. One Ocean has now been home to a team of enthusiastic sailing educators of varying ages for over 135 days, covering 7,000+ nautical miles, and

In 1675 King Charles II commissioned Sir Christopher Wren to build an observatory in Greenwich, England to “improve marine navigation and find the so-much desired longitude at sea for perfecting the art of navigation," this according to an excellent book by Dava Sobel, Longitude, which dives deep

Last evening we motored into one of the only available decent anchorages offering shelter from westerly winds before the 240+ nm run to Cambridge Bay. Weather apps were showing us a low pressure system to our north with predicted wind of 30+, gusts to 45+ for the next 24-36 hours. One Ocean is now