Monthly Archives: September 2020

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D7. Pazzo’s Pacific Adventure-Santiago and Valdivia

From Lima, Zach returned to San Francisco while Cindy and I flew on to Santiago, Chile and the continuing protests against the leadership of President Sebastian Pinera. While awaiting the arrival of new ship’s batteries […]

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D6. Back to South America, land trips to Bolivia and Peru

Cindy and I enjoyed summer 2019 in Seattle. After a summer and fall in Patagonia, we felt we deserved a proper summer. Pazzo waited patiently for us on the hard at Club Reloncavi, tucked behind […]

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D5. Chilean Adventures-Puerto Natales to Puerto Montt

Following our inland explorations from Puerto Natales, we started our long, wet, windy, and cold leg north thru the myriad Channels/Canals of Patagonian Chile. This country is very similar to the inside passage thru British […]

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D4. Pazzo’s Inland Adventures-Chile and Argentina

March 21 proved a fine day for a long road trip to Chile’s Torres del Paines national park. The park is one of Chile’s top rated attractions offering incredible vistas of jagged peaks and deep […]

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D3. Leaving Ushuaia, Take2

After servicing our transmission in Ushuaia, we sailed east to Puerto Williams to, once again, formally enter Chile (Immigration, Customs, and Armada) for our northward trip to Puerto Montt and beyond. We’d been thru the […]

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D2. Stiggelbouts do Antartica

In Ushuaia, we rented a very strong mooring where Pazzo could wait for us during our foray to Antarctica. Uka (an Easter Islander who manages the Club Nautico) agreed to keep an eye on our […]

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