Commissioning a boat is a process of elimination. Much of the effort is designed to reduce the number of post delivery problems as possible. The first few months of cruising will expose what was present all along, but went undetected. …
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Fireworks
We spent the July
4th Independence Day weekend anchored at the head of the Hood Canal (route
map). We went mainly because we’d not anchored there before, and were planning
to stay only fo…
Sunshine At Last!
Whining works after all, we have some sunshine. In fact we have beautiful calm And sunshine. We awake in our precarious anchorage on the west side of Raiatea in "glass" calm water and a beautiful sunny day breaking. We lift anchor and head t…
Oh My God!
We have done the ultimate Polynesian picture perfect thing today! We followed Oso Blanco over to the west side of Tahaa to the motu (small island) Tautau. The channel is 100 plus feet and the reef is about 8 to 12 feet of pure white sand. Oso Blanco br…
PuddleJump parties and Mo’orea
We started 3 days of PuddleJump parties on Friday night in downtown Papeete. Emily had a sail on an outrigger canoe and we picked up our free tee shirts and other information about the Society islands. About 70 boat crews were paraded through town be…
Captain’s Log Update June 29, 2010
Captain’s Log – June 29, 2010- Campbell River, B.C to Sitka
After leaving Vancouver on June 24, we cruised to Pender Bay, a popular vacation retreat for Vancouverites. The hills are dotted with lovely vacation homes and cottages, and it has …
GSSR No. 14 – The Kids Come Home
Greetings all!
At the end of my last blog we were on the island of Miyako. We had never planned to go there, but were forced to stop by weather.
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Captain’s Log Update June 29, 2010
Captain’s Log – June 29, 2010- Campbell River, B.C to Sitka
After leaving Vancouver on June 24, we cruised to Pender Bay, a popular vacation retreat for Vancouverites. The hills are dotted with lovely vacation homes and cottages, and it has …
Allard’s Adventures 2010-07-05 17:44:54
This group of pictures were taken at the castle in Bodrum, Turkey.
