Port Townsend, WA 24-OCT-2024 – I belong to a Zoom group that started as fans of James Everson’s sailboat Zingaro.
I spent a few weeks on James’ boat in Aruba and would do a two-minute video every morning detailing what had happened the night before and the view from the boat.
This year, given it was our last time in Alaska and we were covering ground we’d never cover again, I asked the group if they’d like me to make two-minute videos in Caro Babbo. I was quite surprised when they said yes. I made them for a while and stopped. No one seemed interested. I asked a second time after stopping for a few weeks and everyone said yes again so I restarted. In this playlist are 52 videos made on the trip down. They are in chronological order and you’re welcome to watch. They are raw video: no editing of any kind, though I did stop and start recording in some videos.
They include where we’ve been, a bit about boat life, whale sightings, and our famous crushed compression post. I’m afraid I am not a videographer, and not a YouTube star, so I missed filming most of the exciting stuff because I never keep my camera (phone) at the ready. I guess I live the adventure rather than record it.
James, by the way, has swallowed the anchor, sold his boat, and is living in an apartment in Cartegena. He has a wonderful woman, Ana, and a beautiful little girl, Luna.
We have Caro Babbo in Port Hudson doing maintenance and winter sailing. I’ll write about this in future posts.
The title of each video is the date and time they were taken, so you can cross-reference with the blog entry, which is visible in the top left corner of each video when it starts. There is a video counter 1/52, 2/52, etc that indicates how far into the series you are.
Have fun and enjoy.
Thanks for reading and staying with us.
