VI Victoria & Mid-Island Virtual Club Night – LaChile and its Islands

Join us for this special joint Victoria and Mid-Island Zoom presentation!

Travel with Mary Anne and Larry aboard Traversay III to one of their favorite destinations:  Chile.

A 33-day passage through the cold and breezy Southern Ocean culminated in a knock down halfway through their first trip from New Zealand to Chile. Despite this early and rough introduction, they were so enchanted by the diversity of the geography, the amazing underwater life and the friendly people that they underwent the same Southern Ocean voyage a second time in 2016 (a more benign 39-day passage).

The country ranges from the world’s driest desert in the north, down to the almost unending rains of the scenic Patagonian Channels in the south. You will join their visits to Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Juan Fernandez Island (Robinson Crusoe Island), Ultima Esperanza Province (including the spectacular mountains of Torres del Paine), see some of the colourful underwater life, as well as Chile’s cosmopolitan cities.

And – of course – what sailor doesn’t want to see Cape Horn from the deck of their own boat?

Biography

Larry Roberts and Mary Anne Unrau have been sailing their Waterline 43 cutter all over the world since they first launched her over 20 years ago. They have sailed more than 120,000 miles, have crossed every meridian, sailed south to Antarctica, north to Spitzbergen, and squeezed through the ice in the North-West Passage.  They have sailed the Southern Pacific Ocean, including Australia, the Coral Sea, and New Zealand before heading to Chile and home to Victoria via Honolulu.  Mary Anne is the author of a book about their voyages: Around the World with Traversay III.

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This will be a Virtual Club Night, on the Zoom platform.  An invitation with links to the Zoom meeting and login details will be sent to all BCA members.  Non-members are also welcome to attend. If you would like to attend or did not receive an email invitation please send an email to nanaimo@bluewatercruising.org to receive one.