After being in French Polynesia for well over a year, SV Amanecer is scheduled to continue westbound this weekend, departing Saturday. Due to ongoing COVID closures in the south Pacific nations, we are unfortunately not able to visit Niue, the Cook Islands, or Tonga. Instead, the plan is to skip directly to Fiji. This is approximately a 1900 nautical mile trip from...
After almost one year at Tania marina in Papeete and many attempts to begin our sailing again, we have learned as many that now is not the time to plan too far ahead. Just to get back on board Amanecer is enough for right now. But alas the wind blows and the boat tugs at her lines wanting to carry us off for more adventure, more beauty, and more of this wonderful...
Yes, Canadian mounted police will keep the lawlessness on board Amanecer to a minimum:-) Los Angeles, California. After almost a years time we are heading back to Tahiti and our ‘other home Amanecer! We are very excited to introduce our new crew our new companions to continue Westbound on our circumnavigation. French Polynesia is doing a step-by-step re-opening for...
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Competence has never been a given to me, although many people have given me lots of incredible opportunities to ‘prove myself, I can not really remember an open acceptance that I was worthy of cart blanc acknowledgment, of any specific skill. Understand that we all have to show what we can do or what we can not do, but in my case, it has almost always been a struggle...
If you are not planning it you are dreaming about it, the trade winds route across the Pacific. This route has captured the hearts and minds of sailors for generations. During the last few years, three to four hundred yachts make the Coconut Milk Run one of the most popular cruising seasons. On Twalzan as with many other cruisers, we had taken the month of November...
Spending most of my life in pursuit of adrenaline-filled adventure it seems ironic that I sit today in the Doldrums! Day five is a slow calm motoring event that has us playing card games, watching movies, doing the food, and clean up just the normal floating household. A great time to reflect share travel stories, finish the leftovers while dodging the rain clouds...
As infants before we can remember we smacked at the water in our tiny tubs flinging arms with little control and hearing the splashes we created. All our lives it is there from the sink faucet to the roar of the surf. Back in our bath our head down blowing bubbles and years later listening to the bubbles again only from the fall of a majestic waterfall. ...
Preparing for twenty plus night watches that are broken between the three of us is always a big concern for long passages. You can handle a few nights or maybe even a week of constant sleep interruptions but three weeks or more? Currently, I have the 3 am to 9 am as we have chosen a short-handed version of the watch schedule that includes two six hour stints one for...
