I woke up this morning missing something. I miss bed you can roll out of either side of instead of only being able crawling out awkwardly over the top. I miss toilets that flush quietly without pumping them. I miss lighting the stove to make coffee without having to creep outside to turn on the…
Category: Sailing
Exploring the (mostly) Uncharted Vona Vona Lagoon
We weren’t sure how far we’d get. Beyond the depth soundings over the Katherine bar on the western edge, some details around the perimeter and a small scale chartlet of the port of Noro, home to the Sol Tuna factory, the rest the Vona Vona lagoon appeared as an empty grey expanse on both our…
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Soggy Sollies
We haven’t been moving much recently. Haven’t budged for 17 days actually except when blown around on anchor in passing squalls. We’ve been hemmed in by a weather that is being kept over the Solomon’s by a couple cyclones that formed in the coral sea. Days and days and days of rain. It started off…
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Galley Notes; How to Dress a Squid
So, you’ve managed to convince some cephalopods that your lure looked tasty and now you’ve got a bucket full o’ squid. Visions of calamari are dancing in your head, but just how to you get from whole animal to delicious, deep fried morsels? “Dressing” a squid does not involve turtle necks or tutus, it is…
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How to find the Perfect Anchorage, Just Squidding
All you need to know about finding the perfect anchorage…just squidding!
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Throwback Thursday; Provisioning for the Zombie Apocalypse
When we left San Diego our destination was all points south and west. We had given ourselves a time line of about 18 months to reach Australia (we obviously didn’t quite make it as it is almost 8 years later and we’ve yet to touch Aussie waters) and knew our jump off point into the…
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The Photograph-ed vs. the Photograph-er
What happens when the photograph-er becomes the photograph-ed?
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New Year, New Islands to Explore
After over a week of heavy rain and sometimes very blustery winds the weather has finally broken. We are taking this sunny opportunity to escape from the dirty little town if Gizo and start exploring the surrounding islands in the western province of the Solomn Islands. Our first stop is to check out a cyclone…
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Sailing, Storms and Safety in the Solomon’s
We got some stormy weather from Mother Nature as this years Christmas present.
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Throwback Thursday: Power Struggle Part 2
The second installment of Throwback Thursday Power Struggle. Will she drown in her own soggy boredom? Will he return to a brand new women? Read on to find out.
