12/16/2009, Kumai River, Kalimantan, Indonesia   An Indonesian cargo ship at anchor near the town of Kumai. We’re learning some Indonesian. It’s a fun language that fits together in buildable […]

We’ve arrived in Malaysia, just across a river from Singapore, at Puteri Harbor Marina. The facilities are quite nice, and a break from the wilds of Kalimantan and the anchorages […]

We start this note at sea, at 9:30 a.m., thirty miles or so from the coast of the island of Rinca, in Indonesia, on passage from Darwin, Australia. Paul is […]

No mister, we haven’t seen it. Panapompom, Louisiades, Papua New Guinea September 10, 2009 It was on the fourth trip up on deck, in mid-afternoon, that we noticed something was, […]

  The lighthouse at Booby Island, just outside of the Torres Strait Several weeks ago, we left the Louisiade Archipelago, off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea, bound for […]

  Going to Port Resolution, on the island of Tanna, in Vanuatu, was like traveling back in time. Paul has been reading recently about Scottish history, and life in the […]

07/13/2009, Port Resolution, Tanna, Vanuatu   Sima atop the mast doing repairs For those following our travels closely (mom?), you’ll note that although we spent six months in New Zealand, […]

06/30/2009, Port Vila, Efate, Vanuatu   We had drafted this blog when we were still in New Zealand, and it describes events from last December. Unlike most of our blogs, […]

06/25/2009, Underway   We just arrived in Vanuatu after a seven-day trip from New Zealand. What a terrible passage! We’ve had good ones and bad ones, and we’d rate this […]