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Suwarrow

We had a bumpy 5-day passage to Suwarrow and almost did not leave when some air in the main engine had it running very rough. When bleeding the air, the vent plug broke in two pieces and luckily, I had a close match in my spares. We had a few engine …

Montys’ Bar and Resort

We left Woodwark Bay with the outgoing tide and made the journey to Gloucester Island in 5.45 hrs. I christened the new Breadmaker on the way as well as baking a batch of Rock Cakes. After arriving at the northern end of the island we travelled south l…

Moorea

Moorea still gets our vote for the prettiest of the Society Islands. Since we had traveled here 5 years ago on a holiday, we were not going to stop here with the boat, happily, we changed our minds. When we arrived, we anchored on the top, port side of…

Galley storage

Dirona
has plenty
of storage space—we’ve not yet come close to filling all the lockers despite living
aboard. But it is a boat, and storage space is at a premium. So we’re always…

GSSR No. 15 – The Road to Hong Kong

Greetings all!

Note: The first part of this blog entry is a bit redundant to the quick updates I sent out over the p…

Denia to Ibiza

19th Denia to Ibiza
Mooring for a couple of days in Denia gave us an opportunity to catch up on some work requiring more substantial internet access than provided by our BlackBerry phones.  However, we were both equally keen to be underway again a…

Windy Whitsundays!

Our Flopper Stoppers were on board and we were ready for some rest so we headed for our favourite spot, Cid Harbour, Whitsunday Island.

20 July 2010 – Back to Alaska

My apologies for not staying more current. The farther behind you get in one of thes things, the harder it is to find the time to catch all the way up.As noted in previous posting, we loaded Arcadia I aboard Dockwise’ Super Servant III on June 4th. T…

Weather Reports and Weather Reports!

It is July 19 and we have been in Bora Bora for 11 days now. This is a first for long term anchorages for us, but the weather will not ease up and let us out. We are going to be heading back toward Tahiti, to Moorea and this is part of the problem as w…

Captain’s Log Update July 19, 2010

Captain’s Log – July 19, 2010- Hoonah to Glacier Bay to Juneau   

After leaving Summer Wind with the USCG, we proceeded 8 miles to Hoonah, a Tlingit Village across Icy Inlet from Glacier Bay.  It was rainy and cold, and as it…