Hoga Island & Sampela Village, home to the Bajo tribe of sea gypsies in Wakatobi Regency
We headed off from Banda Neira with five other of the rally yachts on one of our best sails in a long long time. It was 375 miles to the […]
PULAU BANDA NEIRA
The festivities at Debut had officially marked the start of the 2017 Sail 2 Indonesia Rally. Now, it was a 200 mile sail to our next destination of Banda Neira. […]
Port Moresby to Debut, Indonesia
Our small fleet of 10 yachts, flying flags from 7 different countries, departed from Port Moresby for our passage to Indonesia on the tail end of a strong blow, so […]
New Caledonia, Entrecasteaux Reefs and passage to Port Moresby
Sorry folks- this is a long posting as we have been on the move and there is a lot to share so that I am up to date. We had […]
Passage from Opua to Noumea
‘Paralysis by analysis’ is a figure of speech we have come to understand all too well when considering ‘weather windows’ for our ocean passages. It is so easy to over […]
Homeward Bound
This post is not about sailing. Hopefully, there will be oodles of that to come in the next year. We have just flown back to our yacht in New Zealand […]
CODDIWOMPLERS EXTRAORDINAIRE!
Frank and I are becoming expert coddiwomplers. For those of you who think I have now lost the plot completely, let me explain that coddiwompling means ‘to travel purposefully towards […]
Nadia, Dave & Danny’s visit to the Bay of Islands
I hadn’t seen my sister in 4 years, and her husband Dave and son Daniel hadn’t traveled to this side of the world for 16 years, so it was an […]
Bay of Islands
Apart from the first few days spent in a berth at Opua Marina, in the 2 weeks plus since we arrived in New Zealand, we have been familiarizing ourselves with […]
Ocean Passage to New Zealand
Low clouds hung over the craggy peaks above Levuka and the rain poured down from the skies as we left the island of Ovalau bound for New Zealand. We head […]
Stars End 2 