We’re Angie and Mike Zelman, and we were lucky enough to have had Madrone, a sailboat that took us north to Puget Sound, coastal British Columbia, up past Glacier Bay in Alaska, to the Hawaiian Islands and back, to Mexico, the Galapagos, Easter Island, mainland Chile, Patagonia, north in the Atlantic to the Caribbean, up the east coast of the United States to Maine, then across the Atlantic to Bermuda, the Azores, and then onto Northern Europe. In the summer of 2023, Madrone moved on to her new family and we moved onboard Oso in Norway. We sailed the British Isles, the western Iberian Peninsula, Madeira, Canary Islands then back across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. We made one more trip north to Maine before sailing south to Colombia then onto Panama and through the canal. We crossed the Pacific to French Polynesia then Niue and onto Tonga. Oso and her crew are currently exploring Tonga.
Angie is not a natural born sailor, but is a natural born trip planner and packer. She currently serves as Chief Safety Officer, Chief Provisioning Officer, as well as leading the Wildlife Viewing Department.
Mike grew up sailing dinghies with his family in Missouri. He pretends to know what he is doing, and pretends to never be intimidated by the conditions. He serves as the Chief Repair Officer, and it seems unlikely that he’ll be out of work, ever.