Cruising World - February 2016

T

wenty-six days af-

ter sailing Del Viento

away from the arid

tip of Mexico’s Baja

Peninsula, we dropped our

66 -pound Bruce anchor and

300 feet of chain into 140 feet

of water. It was the end of

the longest passage we’d ever

made. I’d not slept well the

night before, and upon mak-

ing landfall, I tried to record

my fi rst thoughts and impres-

sions. I detected jasmine and

gardenia and an earthy must in

the air. I worried we’d never re-

trieve our primary anchor if it

got stuck down there. Then, I

thought of penises.

We’d sailed 3,000 miles to

reach this place, a narrow an-

chorage cut into the small

A CRUISING

W

The crews from Te A r a of

Monaco, Sept à Vivre of Bel-

gium, and Del Viento found

the steep climb to the Bay

of Virgins overlook on Fatu

Hiva to be well worth the

eff ort.

SAILING

PARADISE

into

Story & Photographs by

MICHAEL ROBERTSON

february 2016

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