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On Watch with Peter Janssen
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Ensenada’s the Place to Be, with Pendana, Knot Wafflen’ and the CUBAR Boats All There at the Same Time By Peter A. Janssen One of the best things about cruising is the serendipity of it all. You never really know what’s going to happen next. One of the pleasures of cruising on a well-found boat is that you can act on a feeling, an impulse, or just a hope, and change course to take in something that looks new, different, enchanting. And you never know who you’ll run into along the way. That was certainly the case with James Ellingford,…

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James Ellingford Posts His Best Pictures So Far of Voyage from Australia to Alaska and LA.

Here’s the latest from James Ellingford, the retired Australian businessman and dedicated cruiser, who’s now in Los Angeles on Pendana, his Nordhavn 62. It’s a collection of pictures he has taken since he and his wife Claire and their two daughters left Sydney in April, 2015, to start a six-year circumnavigation. As you can see, Ellingford is an accomplished photographer. The pictures trace the Ellingfords’ voyage so far as they crossed the Pacific to Alaska and then worked their way down the West Coast. The last leg of their trip took them from San Francisco to LA, and started with…

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Nordhavn 62 Owner James Ellingford Completes First Leg of Circumnavigation with His Family, Writes New Book, and Details the Real Costs of Cruising

James Ellingford, a retired Australian business executive and avid cruiser, doesn’t like to live a humdrum life. Indeed, six years ago, when he decided that he and his wife would take on a circumnavigation, he wrote, “Normality in every sense for us is, in a word, boring.” Ellingford certainly is a man who lives by his word. He has already cruised from Sydney to Seattle on his Nordhavn 62 with his wife and two daughters on the start of that circumnavigation; he’s just published his second cruising book, “Cruising Conversations, A Million Nautical Miles and Counting,” and on his blog…