November 3, 2009 Special Blend is now on the hardstand at Scarborough Marina in Australia. Jim and I will be on a plane tomorrow morning, making a stop in Hawaii to lay his Mother to rest in the National Cemetery in Honolulu with his Dad. On Nov 8th we will head to central Florida. We plan […]
October 31, 2009 I’m not sure that we’ll ever get this done before it’s time to leave. The entire boat has been wiped down in and out. We found out we can only have 1 checked bag each on our Sydney to Hawaii leg. It will cost $250. for each extra bag. We are not
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September 30, 2009 It sure is an eye opener to have an early morning wakeup call that a tsunami is heading your way. Got our attention, thank goodness it all ended well. This place is beautiful an atoll, several islands linked by bridges, and MILES of white sand beach. Reminds us of the Tumotos a
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September 5, 2009 Pentecost Island We are in Bwantnapne Bay 15* 39′.782S/168*07′.075E, we dropped anchor and went to shore. There to greet us, was Allen Burle’s grandaughter with our boat card in hand from last year. She was just a smilin’ looking at the card and then us. Chief Allen was so thrilled to see
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August 17, 2009 Wind is still kicking up a bit, but somehow these flies have learned to navigate in 25kt wind. It has been a rock and roll anchorage everywhere we have been for the last week. At the moment we only have a one day weather window and not sure if we want to
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August 4, 2009 We came back to Luganville to check out, all is OK with David and we got the money back. Tomorrow am we are going to the fuel dock, fill up and head North. Hopefully weather will hold for us. Today has been a nice day, but no time to really enjoy it…….tomorrow.
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July 26, 2009 We left Dixon Reef this am about 8:45, Priscilla left an hour earlier. We are going to an anchorage about 30 miles up the way and start working our way to Santo. Still a bit windy. We had a couple of good days snorkeling and visiting the village. The reef is just
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July 5, 2009 17*41′.448S/168*15′.819E? We arrived in Port Vila around 10:30am anchored in Hideaway Bay just outside the city. By 11:30 we were in the water looking at coral and fish. Good passage last night great day today, tomorrow the wind is supposed to pick up and rain in a few days. Maybe we can
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June 29, 2009 9:30pm 30* heading traveling 7.5kt 123.7nm miles to Tana. will be about dark tomorrow when we arrive. All of us are good little uneasy stomachs. Big fish story to tell. 2 for 1 dolphin. bull about 40lbs, cow around 20, more tomorrow. Martha June 28, 2009 At sunrise this morning, Monday 6/29,
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June 18, 2009 All is good here, rain today, supposed to get real windy 35kt or so.. Not heading to Vanuatu yet, they are covered in RED, and you know Jim doesen’t go where there is red. So for now we are seeing New Cal. We have a car yesterday we did some shopping and
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