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 […]

  We’d received conflicting guidance as to whether to visit NZ’s Fiordland (not a typo – that’s the way NZer’s spell it) under crystal clear skies, so as to see […]

We’re back on Leander after a month exploring NZ’s South Island by station wagon. We bought a cheap 95 Subaru Legacy Station Wagon, in pretty good shape, and took it […]

We have safely arrived in Opua, on the northern tip of the North Island, last night at 10 p.m. There was quite a bit of buildup and hype for this […]

11/30/2008, Nuku’alofa, Tonga   Nuku’Alofa, Tongatapu, The Kingdom of Tonga, November 30, 2008 We’ve been in Tonga for the last two weeks, mostly anchored in the yacht basin near the […]

Paul 10/31/2008, Tahiti, French Polynesia   We’ve been berthed just outside of Papeete, the capital of Tahiti, in the Society Islands. We’d been told by other sailors in the know […]

10/10/2008, Toau We arrived safely in the Tuamotus, at a little inlet called Anse Amyot, on the Atoll of Toau, at 11 a.m. local time, Saturday, October 4. The passage […]

The passage from the Galapagos to the Marquesas was long, but surprisingly pleasant. It took three weeks, but we didn’t touch the sails for days on end. We read books, […]