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...
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...