Sorry for the delay, but will be on to this very soon! Life got really busy for a while!!
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Onward to Manihi, Moorea, and Tahiti.
We have left the mysterious and beautiful Nuku Hiva, after taking on 9000 litres of diesel. We are now heading in the direction of Tahiti, where I hope to hire an army of cleaners. My crew are very proficient at the practical stuff but they have made L…
GSSR 2 – Departure from Ashiya
GSSR 2 Underway!
This is just a very short blog entry to let everyone know that we have now left our winter port of Ashiya and have begun the journey that will lead us to Hong Kong.
This is a relatively tiny journey compared to last season’s o…
Landfall in Paradise- Fatu Hiva
Emily Grace has dropped anchor after 21 days at sea and is enjoying blessed silence in the Bay of Virgins on the western side of the island of Fatu Hiva. This island was made famous by Thor Heyerdahl's book of the same name and the Bay of Virgins …
We have arrived in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia!
Lone Wolf at anchor in Taiohae Bay, Nuku Hiva.28/4 11,30.pmWe have made it acoss the Pacific!It’s dark, so I can’t tell you what Nuku Hiva is like, but it looked very dramatic in the moonlight. We are now anchored, bow and st…
Faro to Gibraltar
With Travis safely arrived back home we turn our attention to the next passage – Gibraltar. We have consulted the weather and the forecast is for nothing more than a force 3/4 for the entire journey, so we up-anchor and set our course directly fo…
Lessons learned building a semi-custom trawler
The seminar
schedule for Trawler Fest in Anacortes,
WA has been posted. This year we’ll be presenting on Thursday May 20th at
10:30am on our experience in purchasing, configuring and building a Nordhavn
52.
We attended our first Trawler Fes…
"These waves are getting annoying"
said first mate Justin huggins as I took over the helm for my 2am-6am watch. he was’t wrong. We do four hour watches, and there are four of us, so it ends up beig fair. My next one therefore will be 6-10 pm. It’s 2.30am now and Dave has just joined me….
April 23, 2010 – On the way into La Paz
On the 17th, we anchored outside of Loreto and Earl and I took a quick run to Pescador, the local grocery store. Since Earl was involved, it was quick- a sprint through the store. The man really does not understand the concept of shopping. We did ma…
