Category Adventure

Hello from 2 degrees N latitude—we are so close to the equator. We finally got calming seas yesterday morning and as the day went on it became clear how far our nerves had been shot from five days straight of…

The miles continue and the latitude drops. And it was a busy day yesterday from a sea life perspective. What we believe to be a masked booby (I’ll post a real photo at some point once I figure out how…

What a difference a day and a few knots more of wind makes. We caught up to the wind, or the wind caught up to us, whichever way, and we are sailing again! It feels and sounds incredible. Instead of…

Some new things have happened over the last couple of days — first and possibly most exciting being that yesterday morning we had three flying squid on our deck and then today we had our first flying fish on deck…

Some quick observations from the first couple of days: We’ve been trying to take it easy on ourselves and the boat these first few days while we settle into the routine. The water is getting bluer and the temperature, while…

And we’re off! C’est parti (en français) — 2,820 miles to Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands — and somewhere between 14-21 days most likely. Thank you to Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club for hosting our last stop. See you on…

As you may have noticed from our broken recently fixed website and lack of updates until now, it has taken Conor and I some months to regroup. To refresh everyone’s memory, including our own, we last left you all in…

The REO Speedwagon song Roll With the Changes has at various times in my life has been an anthem to listen to at loud volume while dancing and singing and of course air-guitaring. This song returns once again to be…