The charts in Fiji are not that good. We knew this and we had seen with our own eyes that they were sometimes inaccurate but in the end even this knowledge did not save us. When we were leaving Musket Cove and headed out to The Yasawas we had an encounter with a reef that […]
We are now in a marina that is close to Lautoka on the Western side of Viti Levu. Our time in Fiji, so far, has been very effected by our change of plans to go to Australia instead of New Zealand. We did not think we were going to be in Fiji until after New […]
Well it was really hard to leave Tonga behind. Vava’u had so much to offer and I felt immediately at home. The main village here is Neiafu and we spent half our time here in town and the other half exploring the uninhabited anchorages that are scattered all over this lush and varied island group. […]
We left American Samoa at three in the morning so we had to spend the previous day preparing Fearless. There were all the same things we normaly do to prepare and some extra. We had to get all the laundry done as there were machines here that were a dollar a load and after months […]
Through the Storm Who knew that we were headed into a four day gale? We checked the weather files before leaving, just like we always do. The weather was unstable, to be sure, and both Kay and I thought that we should let the weather firm up. It was the first time that I had […]
Livin’ in Paradise, It’s a Three So, how many tropical sunsets do you have to see before you get jaded? How many amazing fish in clear, crystal blue water do you have to see before it all looks the same? The answer, thankfully, is way more than I have. But it is impossible not to […]
Tahiti, Island Paradise or Toxic City? Well, after my last journal I got some very interesting emails to the effect of: “So, you are saying that Tahiti is not a tropical paradise?” (Jen, you are now officially quoted in my journal, you’re famous!) So I would like to clarify my position on Tahiti and civilization […]
Our last stop in the Marquesas was Ua Poa. We left in daylight and arrived that same day, an easy and uneventful passage. When we got there we went to explore the island. We dinghied up to the jetty: the most bizarre dinghy dock I have seen to date. It was a good eight feet […]
I am in Suwarrow, a small island that is 685 miles from Bora Bora and 487 miles from Pago Pago. It took me 5 days to get here from Bora Bora in the biggest weather that I have seen so far in my nine months at sea. I am helping my friends on Little Wing, […]
Nuku Hiva, Taiohae was the first civilization that we had seen since we left Puerto Vallarta: other “towns” had consisted of a road, some quaint houses and if you were lucky a “general store.” Very general. The size of a welfare kid’s room and just as sparsely decorated. So when we pulled into the bay […]