July 1st, 2013 I hope all you Canuks celebrated Canader Day in style on Monday. We made a special trip back to town so we could have a few cold refreshing ones at a bar owned by a couple guys from Ottawa. Steve treated me to a burger and a poutine and we had a…

May 22, 2013 We had what can only be called an excellent windward passage, the wind coming from the direction we wanted it to come from until the very last day! We arrived early Saturday morning and spent the weekend tucked into our very favourite little bay awaiting Monday morning so we could check in….

May 13, 2013 It was my intention to get up early this morning and sit and write all about our last few months in Fiji, the dramas of the refit (how it took three tries to paint the couch house, how it rained part of Feb and most of March and no work was done,…

October 2012 I am happy to be sitting here writing you this morning as it has been much too long since I have sent out an update.  After a slightly extended time away collecting funds for the cruising kitty we are home!  We arrived last weekend after another long flight, pushing our allowable luggage poundage…

March 14th, 2012 Kate is still in the hole in Fiji, safe and sound for the storm season, and we are still hopping on and off other boats in other parts of the world so no new adventures from the helm to report.  I will resume our regular updates when we return to Kate. Until…

November 11th, 2011 Well I realize it had been a while since I’ve written or updated the website. Things certainly have been busy, on board and off.  Where to start… I guess first off I should tell you that we abandon ship. Yep, right now we are not on Kate, in fact Kate is no…

September 24th, 2011 What a difference a day makes, ok three days at sea. We had a great passage last week, a fast downhill run that saw us cover 437nm in 72 hours.  On the second day Steve reeled in a nice big Mahi, 4 foot!!!  He was so long that when Steve was filleting…

August 23rd, 2011 What a shock to the system!  Not only has the landscape totally changed; gone are the low lying islands with a myriad of shoals and reefs to watch for, replaced with tall green, lush, rolling hills with lots of protected anchorage to tuck into.  But the town is nothing like Steve remembers…

August 4th Well, things have been anything but boring and predicable on board in the last few weeks.  It seems that the settled winter weather is taking it’s sweet time getting to Tonga, instead we’ve had wave after wave of low pressure coming over from New Zealand, those roaring forties are screaming now, giving us…

We’ve done it! We’ve successfully modified our little boat into a time machine. Yes, right now, you are reading a message from the future! However, we’re still have a few problems with the space time continuum as time seems to pass faster inside the cabin than outside on deck, especially when you are the one…