by Rachel | Feb 19, 2022 | Mosaic Family Voyage, Vancouver Family Magazine
This article was previously written by Rachel Messerschmidt for and published by Vancouver Family Magazine in January 2021. It was 7:00am on Sunday, May 19th, 2019. Right on time, we cast off our dock lines in Astoria and ventured out into the Columbia River for the...
by Rachel | Feb 18, 2022 | Mosaic Family Voyage, Vancouver Family Magazine
This article was previously written by Rachel Messerschmidt for and published by Vancouver Family Magazine in December 2020. Nearly five whole years into our crazy plan to sell our house and almost all of our belongings, and buy and move onto a sailboat with our kids,...
by Rachel | Feb 18, 2022 | Mosaic Family Voyage, Vancouver Family Magazine
This article was previously written for and published by Vancouver Family Magazine in November 2020. In October 2016, our landlubber family took the leap and moved aboard our new sailboat, Mosaic, in a marina on Hayden Island at Jantzen Beach. We enjoyed two weeks of...
by Rachel | Feb 18, 2022 | Mosaic Family Voyage, Vancouver Family Magazine
As I write this, it is mid-February 2022 and we’re sitting anchored in Bahia Santiago near Manzanillo on the central Pacific Mexico coast. It’s been months since I’ve updated the blog, sorry about that. I’ve found that my monthly columns...
by Rachel | Sep 29, 2021 | Mosaic Voyage Blog, Passage Review
Continuing our southbound passage adventures from my previous blog post… West Coast Southbound Passage Leg 4: Crescent City to Eureka September 4, 8am-6pm | 10 hours, 65 Nautical Miles This quick day hop was our first dipping-our-toes-in-the-water passage with...
