Following a pretty easy overnight sail we landed in Fare on Huahine, which is northwest of Tahiti. Fare has a yacht club, a burger place with WiFi and a good grocery store, each of which was pretty exciting after being in…
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The Tuamotus: Storms, Sharks and Soirées on the atolls.
We sailed by the Tuamotus during lockdown, going from Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas to Tahiti, but were not allowed to stop anywhere during the quarantine. With lockdown over, we were eager to head back. After waiting for a reasonable…
Trapped in Paradise – French Polynesia during COVID
When we arrived in Hiva Oa in the Marquesas Islands on March 12, the world was in the midst of rapid change. French Polynesia includes about 800 nautical miles east to west with a hundred plus islands in 5 different…
Pacific Passage – thank you, Neptune!
Thank you, Neptune! Our pledge to him while crossing the equator must have worked. It was a fast, 15 and a half day dream passage! We mostly had 15 knots of wind on a broad reach. Most of the time…
Panama to Galapogos Passage
Panama to San Cristobal, Galapagos, 840 nm, 5 days, 6 humans By Guest Bloggers – Beth Bushey and Elouise Reiff Beth is Renee’s sister, who enjoyed some occasional day sailing and decided to take the leap to the blue waters…
ABC’s – Bonaire, Curacao and Aruba
After our holiday extravaganza through the Grenadine’s, we spent a little time regrouping in Bonaire. Bonaire is not overdeveloped with high rises everywhere like some of the Caribbean, but does have good restaurants, provisions and shops available. Since the seventies,…
Caribbean Holiday – St. Lucia to Bonaire
We had 9 souls aboard Verbena for the holidays! The Kohn family (Stephanie, Dave, Caleb (12) and Elio(10)) and Vera’s friend Ruby Flaherty joined from Boston for the winter break. We started with a win in Rodney Bay! At the…
Canary Islands – Lanzarote and Fuerteventura
We were happy to be in warm sunny weather in Lanzarote after months of chilly Northern European weather. We landed first at Arrecife marina. We first noticed how all the boats we ocean going live aboads rather than day sailers.…
Cascais, Portugal to Lanzarote, Canary Islands
Guest post written by – Scott Dinhofer Scott….Scott….. SCOTT!!! I was having a dream and one of the characters turned to me and started calling my name sharply. Turns out that on the boat outside of my dream, Renee was…
Porto, Portugal
From Baiona, Spain we started out motoring toward Portugal. Porto was about 60 nm south and forecast was for southerlies 10 to 15 knots going southwest. We started out motoring and were eventually able to sail on a close reach.…