After an enjoyable and busy shakedown cruise in Uruguay, I have some thoughts on the sailing part of the sailboat. This post will be full of uneducated preaching on sail handling, so I am eager to hear corrections and comments from sailing veterans. My target audience for this post is small. If you are not a sailor, then this post will seem pompous and needlessly technical. If you are an accomplished sailor, then you will be able to correct this post in my attempt to teach others. […]
Coming soon…
We have some longer posts in the works covering our 2 week Uruguay cruise and tips on sailing the Antares. In the meantime we thought a few images might provide you with your fix of Two Fish action. The “movie” is of our spinnaker with our boat logo. The sail is the size of a NYC two bedroom apartment and takes a bit of skill to put away.
Vacation from a Vacation – A Week in BA
I realize many of our readers have little empathy for the tough life we live. Our posts probably offer a moment for readers to pause and remember how lucky they are to have conference calls, delayed flights, and the other joys of the working world. We also realize our lives are rough and decided we needed a bit of a break. The break came in the form of a week in Buenos Aires. Where we stayed Our temporary neighborhood was nicknamed by me “the island where nothing bad ever happens“. […]
Santiago Adventures
36ish hours in Santiago. Parades, museums and a bit of history. Tourism is getting bigger hear so take a trip before it is overrun.
2 Weeks in Chile from Two Fish on Vimeo.
A Taste of Chile
For lunch on our first day, I tried an Empanada Pino. Pino is not pine nuts, nor is it pineapple. It is a mixture of spicy ground beef with stuff thrown in there such as hard-boiled eggs, olives (pits included), raisins and corn. The dough was very floury, in a good way, and it was baked; for those of you with Eastern European and South African provenance, it was sort of like bobotie in a baked pierogi. I tasted two others while in Chile, empanaditos and a fried empanada, and […]
Big Day
After 10,000 hours of labor, at 8:38 a.m., Two Fish splashed. She weighs 20,000 pounds and 7 ounces and is 528 inches. Mother, Father and boat are healthy.
Boat Splash from Two Fish on Vimeo
Valparaíso, Chile – Port City
(Left: Painting from Naval Museum of Sailing Ship Rounding Cape Horn) In 1914 the Panama Canal opened, creating modern shipping. Like any seismic change, the impact of the canal would be felt half a world away in Valparaíso, Chile. The town was booming from the shipping of copper, nitrates, guano and California gold from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Valparaíso is a wel-situated stop before rounding the dangerous Cape Horn. The Porteños of Valparaíso (Port people) became rich. The term Porteños is used for residents of BA, Valpo and a port city […]
El Desierto de Atacama
Soon we will be heading out to the Atlantic, so we decided to explore the opposite end of the spectrum-the Chilean desert. The desert really suits me. The top five things I like about the desert are: Number 5- Sand is really soft to fall on (click here to see our sandboarding attempt), Number 4-it is only one letter away from dessert; Number 3-limited bug population; Number 2-it is warm; and, the Number 1 reason-the low humidity keeps my hair under control. Oh, yes, of course it is beautiful and […]
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