 Martin
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Following
are some archived logs from the Martin Family's earlier adventures
sailing around the world.
To view logs select a title below:
- The
Voyage of the Martini, Part 6:
Dave
concludes this memoir about his early days of cruising, with a reminder
of how fragile our dreams can be.
The
Voyage of the Martini, Part 5:
This
week the Martins talk about learning celestial navigation.
- The
Voyage of the Martini, Part 4:
Dave
shares some hard-won lessons about navigation in the real world.
- The
Voyage of the Martini, Part 3:
When Dave & his dad got into a grueling storm off the Oregon coast,
with little emergency equipment, their attitude was what helped them
survive.
- A
Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush:
Since this week SetSail is focusing on "Cruising with Pets",
we're bringing back the Martin's unforgettable story about the kids'
Australian pet budgee.
- The
Voyage of the Martini, Part 2:
How Dave handled one of his first big gales, when he was 19 years old
sailing near Vancouver Island.
- The
Voyage of the Martini:
A brief back-story on how Dave Martin got started in the cruising life.
With words of inspiration for beginning cruisers.
- A
Summer of Travel Ends:
The Martins write about a joyful reunion with their friends in Svolvaer,
where they decided to spend the winter again this year.
-
Cruising
with Babies:
An
expecting SetSail reader recently asked us for information on cruising
with infants. We thought Dave and Jaja were
the most qualified to offer advice. (With very cute pictures!)
- Trolls:
An intense three-day gale ends with a troll encounter.
- Dreaming:
Drifting along mindlessly aboard a boat, without a destination, takes
careful consideration and preparation.
- Going
South:
After the Arctic Circle, the Martins try to decide where to sail next.
- Cost
of Cruising:
This week we've asked all our SetSail contributors to write about how
much it costs to go cruising. The Martins' first response was, "How
much have you got?" But here they offer some more detailed info.
- Dreams:
Dave demonstrates how sleep-walking and sailing don't mix.
-
Tromso:
A run-in with a gun dealer.
- Back
in Norway:
The 6-day trip from Svalbard back to the Norwegian coast.
- A
New Year's Constitution:
Reminiscing about New Years past, including an unforgettable potluck
while holed up in a New Caledonia mangrove awaiting a hurricane.
- Batteries
Not Included:
Christmas aboard with kids.
- Last
Days in Svalbard:
In the final installment to their "Midnight Summer" series,
the Martins reflect upon their summer of sailing in the remote cruising
grounds of the Arctic Circle, and share a tale of one last close encounter
with a polar bear. Now it's on to new adventures.
- Arrival
in Bellsund:
Read what the Martins did to steer DRIVER safely through the intense
high-latitude squalls.
- Return
to Bellsund:
En route back to Bellsund, the calm fjord is suddenly transformed by
a violent gale.
- Barentsberg
Continued :
More on the Martin family's adventures in the Russian coal-mining port.
- More
on Barentsberg:
The Martins are invited aboard an old Russian barge, where they discover
a living deep-sea-diving museum.
But will Dave accept when the divers offer him a drink of cleaning
solvent?
- Barentsberg:
DRIVER
visits a Russian coal-mining port where the Martins feel like they've
stepped back into history.
- Southbound
Again:
Culture shock in Magdalene Fjord, a popular cruise ship destination.
The Martins share some hilarious stories about the tourists.
- Smeerenburg
Glacier
(Part 2): Read about the tactics Dave and Jaja used to survive the closest
call of the summer, when DRIVER was almost crunched between a reef and
a giant iceberg.
- Smeerenburg
Glacier:
Anchored off the most dynamic glacier they've found so far.
- Northern
Svalbard : Exploring the 400-year-old ruins of a whaling operation.
- You
Can't Always Get What You Want: At 610 miles from the North Pole,
pack ice, a dropping barometer, and a dangerous lee shore force the
Martins to turn back just shy of their goal.
- Edge
of an Ocean: Dave and Jaja weigh the dangers vs. once-in-a-lifetime
opportunities as they sail with their children farther north into the
Arctic Circle.
- Ice:
The Martins celebrate the summer solstice while frozen into a fjord,
giving thanks for DRIVER's
steel hull.
- Getting
Around: The challenges of piloting through icebergs and undiscovered
shoals left behind by a retreating glacier.
- Bellsund:
Encountering walruses, reindeer, and an eerie whaling graveyard.
- More
Hornsund: Safely holed up in an uncharted lagoon while an easterly
gale surges through the fjord, and watching a spectacular show of calf
ice breaking off the glacier cliffs...No one ever said paradise had
to be warm.
- Hornsund:
Visiting lonely scientists, marveling at the wealth of arctic wildlife,
and their first close call witha family of polar bears.
- The
Passage: A freezing sail towards the goal of a lifetime, whereupon
the Martins decide that "cold-weather
cruising is a state of mind...like Communism."
- Underway:
There's still too much ice around Svalbard, so instead DRIVER harbor-hops
to Nordkapp,
at the top of
Norway.
- Departure:
Taking leave of their adopted home of Svolvaer, Norway, for adventures
in more remote regions.
- Midnight
Summer 2000-Preparations: How to prepare for the world's northernmost
cruising grounds.
To
read about their more recent adventures, click here
or for older stories, click here.
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