Hi All.  Just an update to let you know what is going on.  I am currently in Denver taking care of the parasite I picked up.  Glad to say I am finally starting to feel better.  Thanks for all the well wishes. 
After sailing to Australia, Mike and Shellette made their way down to Brisbane where [...]

Day one of our journey to OZ land.
First off, the day before I am making ready all the final preparations to get off on time. Roger, my savior of sailing has committed to help me sail Shellette to the OZ land. I am making French Toast. I need to make sure I take extra care [...]

Off to OZ
Our friend Roger is returning to Vanuatu to sail to Australia with Mike. I am returning to the states to get to the Dr. as I’ve picked up a bug along the way…nothing serious…..besides, I’m also over the passages….
Mike and Roger have a 1,050 sail ahead of them from Port Vila, Vanuatu [...]

We sailed to the island of Malakula and anchored in a bay known as Port Sandwich.
Luckily we had a good cruising guide book because as tempting as this bay was to take a swim….it is known as quite the shark haven. Years ago they started to discard cattle carcass’ here and all the sharks [...]

As we traveled around Vanuatu we encountered wonderful people, rough seas and once in a life time experiences.
While anchored off of the Meskalyn Islands, we were approached again by a local dugout canoe. We were told the Chief extended an invitation to us to visit the village that afternoon. At the [...]

Island of Tanna….a few stories before we move off Tanna. We had to check in to Vanuatu, as is customary with every country we enter. When we arrived, we anchored at Port Resolution. While this is the preferred and closer anchorage on Tanna, we had to, at some point, make our way [...]

Our sail from Fiji to Vanuatu was 3 days. We left around 8am on Wednesday morning and arrived at the island of Tanna on Saturday morning. Once we sailed outside the reefs of Fiji the weather, wind and seas were decent. About 10pm the first night the winds picked up [...]

Hi All….We arrived in Vanuatau safe and sound. We have a rough sail half the time and beautiful the second half. We checked into the island of Tanna which is the south end of Vanuatu and also home of the world’s most active volcano. They actuall let you walk up to the [...]

We are checking out of Fiji today and heading for Vanuatu.
We spent our last night in Fiji with several new friends. Lots of guitar playing and sing along. What a fun night. We have only a 3 day sail in front of us. We have two friends from New Zealand and [...]