Vixen Voyage, or living happily on a boat 11 years and having 2 daughters as well. VIDEO
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Eleven years ago Bruce and Tiffany Halabisky decided to give up their everyday lives, buy a small 1952 wooden boat and sail around the world. Today, after two having also had two daughters, strictly born on board, they still have not stopped. A story that made our editorial staff fall in love.
The Halabisky family sailed from Canada in 2004 aboard Vixen (a 34-foot wooden vessel designed in 1950 by John Atkin and launched in 1952), after spending about two years putting it in order. It has not stopped since. We have crossed Pacific and Indian Oceans and completed three trans-Atlantic crossings. “We visited over thirty countries and met countless numbers of people. Our longest stop was a year and a half in New Zealand, where our daughter Solianna was born. In 2010 our second daughter Seffa Jane was born instead as soon as we reached Brazil.“, Bruce tells in their blog.
DISCOVER IN THIS VIDEO THE WONDERFUL STORY OF VIXEN
THE IMPRESSIVE TRAVELOGUE OF THE VIXEN
We could try to tell you about all the countries that the Halabisly family has touched, but nothing can render the idea like the list you find here. What do you think?
2002 — 2004: Victoria, Canada
September 2004 — April 2005: Hawaiian Islands
May 2005 — July 2005: French Polynesia (Tuamotus, Tahiti, Huahine, Raiatea, Tahaa, Bora Bora)
July 2005 — November 2005: Fiji (Viti Levu, Vanua Levu)
December 2005 — April 2007: New Zealand
May 2007 — July 2007: Fiji (Viti Levu, Kandavu, Yasawas)
July 2007 — September 2007: Vanuatu
September 2007: Huon and Chesterfield Reef
September 2007 –July 2008: Australia (Brisbane to Thursday Island)
July 2008 — October 2008: Indonesia (Tanimbar Islands, Flores, Komodo, Rinca, Bali, Borneo etc.)
November 2008 — December 2008: Malaysia
December 2008 — February 2009: Thailand
March 2009: Malaysia (Langkawi)
April 2009 — June 2009: Indonesia (Sumatra)
July 2009: Chagos Archipelago
July 2009 — October 2009: Madagascar
November 2009 — February 2010: South Africa
March 2010: St.Helena
March 2010 — December 2010: Brazil (Joao Pessoa)
December 2010 — January 2011: Tobago
February 2011 to April 2011: Caribbean
May 2011: Bahamas
June 2011: North Carolina, Virginia, NYC, Long Island Sound
July – September 2011: Maine
Summer 2012: coastal Maine to New Brunswick including St John River
July 2013: Rockland, Maine to Flores, Azores
August 2013: Horta, Azores
September 2013: Sao Jorge, Sao Miguel, Santa Maria
October 2013: Porto Santo and Madeira
November 2013: Tenerife — Canary Islands
November – December 2013: Senegal (Dakar and Casamance River), Cape Verde Islands
January 2014: Barbados
January – April 2014: Antigua
April 2014: Saba
May 2014: St. Thomas USVI
June — July 2014: Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, Jost Van Dyke
August — September 2014: Los Roques, Venezuela; Bonaire; Curacao; Cartagena, Columbia; San Blas Islands, Panama
October 9-10 2014: transit of Panama Canal
October — November 2014: Panama City and Las Perlas Islands
December– January 2015: Costa Rica to Hilo, Hawaii
VIXEN CROSSES OUTGOING PATH FROM OCTOBER 2014 — TEN YEAR CIRCUMNAVIGATION!
April — May 2015: Lahaina, Maui
June 2015: Kaunakakai, Molokai
July 2015: Ucluelet, Canada
July 2015: Victoria Canada. Back Home again!
Right now Vixen and his crew are resting in the house from which they left eleven years ago (who knows if they still see it as such…). Shall we bet they are already thinking of new adventures?
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