Cruising American Samoa is not as impossible as it seems (published September 2017) It appeared that we were victors and victims of that strange luck, circumstance: […]
Escape From Pago Pago
Going with the Flow: Navigating the East Australia Current
Funny how the beginning and end of a voyage can parallel each other, even when they’re three years and thousands of miles apart (published April 2016) […]
Fiji: Flirting with the Date Line
On paper, crossing the Pacific in one season seemed like a perfectly good plan. But once there, we were like kids in a candy store: everything […]
Discovering New Caledonia
Before we sailed through the Havannah Pass and into the lagoon that surrounds “La Grande Terre” we’d heard very little about New Caledonia. The few people […]
Nowhere Else
Still sailing the same silent sea. Photos by Nancy Krill (published January 2016) “So you didn’t go anywhere this season…you only cruised Alaska”, is a refrain […]
Reef Piloting
Heading to the tropical reef systems of the world is the driving reason for many cruisers. However, when we get among the reef systems of the […]
Samoan Sojourn
A family finds more than just a great destination in the South Pacific (published July 2013) I had flown into Samoa from Hawaii with my two […]
Broken Bay, Australia
Sydney’s Second Harbor (published December 2014) We’ve all seen images of Sydney’s stunning harbor, with its iconic opera house and coathanger bridge. But just 20 miles […]
A Trip into the Dangerous Middle
An eventful passage between French Polynesia and Niue (published December 2014) It was going to be just another downwind leg on the long voyage that was […]