23:09.61S 135:02.32W I mentioned before the fact that we had been struggling to get our heads around tropical weather and its forecasting. Last weekend had not just us but every boat in the area studying the weather situation very closely. …
23:06.75S 134:57.98W Yes it does! The last week has been very wet but only slightly cooler than the previous couple of weeks. We have been swimming every day but that is about all our outdoor activities have been limited to
23:09.02S 135:03.30W Peregrine and Morgane anchored in Onemea Bay We now have two cruising yachts from the Falklands in the Gambier Islands. This is probably a first outside of the Falklands and what were the old Falkland Islands Dependencies of South …
23:06.798S 134:58.002W Sunday and we were in church and it wasn’t even a wedding or a funeral! We went to Easter Sunday mass to celebrate with more or less the whole Island. There were about 300 people in church at …
Chilling in the heat of the Gambiers & the Mission! Read more »
23:06.79S 134:58.01W We have finally arrived somewhere that has a proper anchorage, somewhere where we can anchor in still waters, and somewhere that we can set foot on dirt. We had been 32 days at sea (including one night in …
25:38.00S 126:39.00W – 200 Miles East of Pitcairn Island. Our battered Chilean courtesy flag, now retired A week of trade wind sailing at last. We have had only one slow day during the last week and even then we made …
Chau Chau Wolfgang, chau South America, aloha Polynesia Read more »
26:52.70S 111:29.00W – 1000 nm East of Pitcairn Easter Island in benign conditions Excuse the typos we are bouncing a bit! We have a few events to report on this week; a close cruise past Isla Sala y Gomez, a …
Easter Island – A non-visit, reinforced trades and tuna Read more »
Friday 04 March 2016 26:50.50S 101:34.00W – 400 miles East of Easter Island You may have guessed from the title of this post that we have not found the fabled Trade Winds yet. The past week has seen mostly light …
Isla Robinson Crusoe; in our wake Friday 26th February 2016 27:32.00S 089:44.5W – 1000 miles east of Easter Island There is not a lot to report this week, we are at sea heading in the general direction of Easter Island, …
Poblado San Juan Bautista Saturday 19 February 2016 33:38.40S 078:49.53W – Bahia Cumberland, Isla Robinson Crusoe, Archipelago Juan Fernandez We sailed into Bahia Cumberland, Isla Robinson Crusoe as the Sun went down on Tuesday 16th February. We were trying to …
Isla Robinson Crusoe – not quite what we expected Read more »