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27, 000 MILES • 3 OCEANS • 18 MONTHS

We’re a small family who decided to build a boat and sail around the world. These are our stories from along the way.

Nicole, Toby and Jackie hail from the San Francisco Bay Area. Along with our Dutch crew Lotte and Joren, we are taking our boat across 3 oceans — 27,000 nautical miles — and visiting 6 continents over the course of 18 months. We are not alone. Along with 21 other Oyster sailing yachts, we are part of the Oyster World Rally

Our boat Skana is an Oyster 675. She is a 69′ sloop and built to be a true bluewater cruiser. Oyster describes their boats as “go anywhere adventure machines,” capable of taking us around the world in safety and comfort. This is not the kind of boat we grew up sailing!

In a nod to our BC roots, the name Skana is derived from the Haida word sgaana, meaning orca or “blackfish”. Orcas have been a symbol of the Pacific Northwest for thousands of years and to many in the First Nations, they represent family, travel, community and protection.

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A Road To Be Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

— Robert Frost