LANDFALL
“What did you do for safety?”
It’s a common question for Tiffany Loney, 46, and her husband, Bruce Halabisky, 49. As decorated circumnavigators and the parents of two daughters, Solianna, 13, and Seffa Jane, 9, who were born during the voyage, they have heard the question more often than they care to remember.
“I don’t know what people are talking about,” Loney muses on a quiet September evening, sitting by a crackling driftwood fire on the gravel beach that fronts their home on Orcas Island, Washington. “Duh. We got the right boat.”
, the wooden gaff cutter that served as the family’s home and vehicle beginning in 2002, tugged at her mooring a scant 50 yards off that beach. After returning from their voyage in 2015, the family settled here, near the town of Eastsound, Washington, on
