VI South Club Night – Chantey V Returns Home: El Salvador to Victoria

On August 1st, 2011, BCA Members, Daragh and his wife Cathryn departed Victoria aboard Chantey V for a five-year Pan American cruise during which they covered 25,000 miles, visited more than 30 countries, and were joined by 33 friends and family along the way.

Their previous presentation to BCA in the Fall of 2015 covered their first four years of cruising from Victoria to Newfoundland via the Panama Canal and back through the Caribbean and the Canal to Bahia del Sol, El Salvador. This presentation covers the last year of their cruise from El Salvador back to Victoria – via the Sea of Cortez, Mexico and the Hawaiian Islands.

Chantey V is a Moody 376 centre cockpit sloop built in 1987, which Daragh describes as ‘a fine, capable, offshore yacht with a good balance of live aboard comfort and sailing speed’.