Western Samoa is no more. Its name was changed to simply Samoa in 1997. However, in an effort to differentiate it from its neighbor to the East, American Samoa, we continue to refer to it as Western Samoa as many others do. Samoa is between longitu…
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Bound for the Louisiades!!
Saturday 11th September, sunny 15knt easterly and the excitment was high amongst the 25 skippers and their crew as they await the final weather briefing and hearty breakfast on the verandah of the Yorkeys Knob Boat Club.
With all the formalities out of…
Test Msg
36nm NE of Cairns and all is well. 16.35S 146.18E
Suwarrow to Samoa
We arrived bright and early to the pass at Suwarrow on Sept 7/10 after 4.5 days on the rolling ocean. Suwarrow is a tiny little atoll in the northern Cook Island group. It is basically a narrow perimeter of sand and coral rock around a 5 x 5 mile lagoo…
When Displacement Speed Beats Planing Speed
Our Alaska trip was simply amazing. The glaciers and mountain scenery were incredible—we
spent over a week in Glacier Bay National Park and several days in Tracy and Endicott
Arms (trip
map). We also cruised the complex ou…
Back To The Heat
The crew of New Paige returned to Turkey after spending almost 5 weeks in Canada and boy IS IT HOT HERE! We flew into Istanbul and met up with friends Frank, Joni and Kiara from California. We stayed in the Sultanahmet district of old Istanbul at the Ferman Hotel; very centrally located. We were there […]
Good-by French Polynesia, Hello Suwarrow
If only the good-bye/hello could be so quick as speaking it! For the Google Earth followers, we are at 15.52.427 lat and 153.56.858 long. We got back to Tahiti on the evening of Aug 30/10, arriving to a lovely warm 25 degrees C from an un-seasonally co…
regressing……..
I was not planning on doing another blog entry from Hong Kong, but Ken sent this to us from the US, who got it from Bill Harrington, our friend and guide who traveled on Sans Souci while in the Aleutian Islands. Attu is the furthermost out of the Aleut…
Christi on the Jeff Campbell Radio Show Thursday!
This Thursday, September 2 from 6:00 – 7:00 pm PST, Christi will be interviewed LIVE for an entire hour on the Jeff Campbell Radio Show, which airs on the local San Diego radio station 107.9 FM. You can listen live online. We’ll post the po…
Hinchinbrook Island to Yorkeys Knob, Cairns
We enjoyed our time in Sunday Creek, catching up on odd jobs, hunting and gathering trying to get a feed of mud crabs in preparation for the coming week and visits from my very dear friend, Sue and husband Warren as well as Mum and Dad coming aboa…
