Exiting Salalah en route to Aden: We’ve spent several days at the over-syllabled Omani city of “Salalah.” Why did they not just stop at “Sa-lah?” You’d figure that at least […]

Day 16: 135 Miles From Salalah, Oman 16 52 N, 56 42 E We had really been sweating the fuel situation for a good part of the trip. We sought […]

Day 13: 460 Miles From Salalah, Oman 15 N, 66 E We had a visitor yesterday. A unmarked patrol plane buzzed us at tree-top level, providing excitement to an otherwise […]

Day 11: A Little Bit Closer to Oman 16 44 N, 66 37 The title to today’s entry is sung to the tune of John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High.” If […]

In the midst of the Arabian Sea 16 44 N, 66 37, OK, so we’re jumping the gun, and the halfway mark won’t be reached until tomorrow, or, if there’s […]

Passage from Maldives to Oman, Day Five Enroute to Salalah, 409 miles done, 1182 to go We left Uligan late in the day on Friday, April 9, and have been […]

April 10, 2020 Uligan, The Maldives We spent three restful days anchored off of the island of Uligan, in the Maldives. Compared with Galle, in Sri Lanka, it was paradise […]

We arrived with the sun low in the sky today, after six days at sea. That was a s-l-o-w passage, made a bit difficult by the stiff winds in our […]

April 4, 2010; 140 NM from Uligan, The Maldives It’s been an easy couple of days. Sima sits reading her Kindle, after watching a couple of movies last night during […]