Latitude 38: February, 2015

Latitude 38, “the west’s leading sailing and marine magazine” published part 2 of the first year of our voyage in the February, 2015 print issue.  It’s available online here: http://www.latitude38.com/changes/Changes02-15.html#benevento Benevento — Pacific Seacraft 40 The Massaro Family The Other Latitude 38 (San Francisco) As we mentioned in Part 1 of our report, it’s been more…

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Latitude 38: January, 2015

Latitude 38, “the west’s leading sailing and marine magazine” published part 1 of the first year of our voyage in the January, 2015 print issue.  It’s available online here:  http://www.latitude38.com/changes/Changes01-15.html#benevento   Benevento — Pacific Seacraft 40 The Massaro Family The Other Latitude 38 (San Francisco) It’s been more than 12,000 nautical miles since we —…

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Ocean Navigator Online

Ocean Navigator Magazine published an article online about Benevento and its crew on November 11, 2014 http://www.oceannavigator.com/Web-Exclusives-2014/No-doubt-a-voyager/ Some boats are fitted out in a way that leaves no doubt they’re ready for sailing on wide ranging passages. Benevento, a Pacific Seacraft 40 owned by Jennifer and Darold Massaro, is just such a boat. Benevento is…

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Benevento’s Boozy Bilge

Benevento weighs 12 tons. Fully loaded with provisions and everything we needed for cruising, we estimated she was 15 tons. After pulling her out of the water to truck her from FL to CA, she turned out to be 18 tons! And here is one of the reasons why: all that alcohol in the bilge……

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Who is the Lucky One?

Now that Dante and I are back home after two years sailing halfway around the world, we have to wait for our captain to join us. It will take him approximately 6 months to sail Benevento home. When I met Darold in college, he told me he was going to sail around the world someday….

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