This blog is about Rich Jablonski and Elaine Cashar as we sail on Windarra, a Stevens '47, cutter rig sailboat leaving Seattle in May 2010.
In 2001, our family moved out of a 3 bedroom house and onto a 47 foot sailboat with 3 cabins. Rich took an early retirement from Boeing, I took a leave of absence, we sold our house and moved on board. Jesse was 15, just finishing his freshman year in high school. Sarah as 13 and finishing 7th grade and Katmandu went from being a house cat to a boat cat.
Over the next three years we sailed from Seattle, around Vancouver Island and then down the coast into Mexico, and across the Pacific to Australia. We returned to the United States in August 2004.
In 2010, Rich and I went cruising again with Katmandu. From Seattle we went north to Ketchikan, Alaska before turning around and heading south. We spent the winter in the San Francisco bay and sadly said goodbye to Katmandu as he went over the rainbow bridge in Nov 2010. After Jesse and Rae's wedding and Sarah's graduation from Reed College in 2011, we continued south. 2015 found us rounding Cape Horn and in 2016 we heading north visiting Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.
The name, Windarra, is an Australian aboriginal word meaning, "Which way?" or "Where to next?". We think this is appropriate for us as we are sailing.
The name, Windarra, is an Australian aboriginal word meaning, "Which way?" or "Where to next?". We think this is appropriate for us as we are sailing.
