Key West
Hi Everyone! It has been a long time since our last post. For the past 6 months, we took a break from our travels to spend time with family. Last year in January, Jen and I fled the cold and went to Key West for a couple weeks, but my
Ireland!
One of our long-awaited bucket list trips was to visit Ireland together. Last month we finally did it! As promised, we wanted to give you an overview and review of what we did in case you are thinking of making this trip yourself! Jen and I flew into Dublin and
Sailing Video and Our Next Journey
Hi Everyone! We wanted to give you a few quick updates on the sailboat and our next trip. First, the sailboat (Just Ducky) made it safely across the Pacific. She arrived on August 29th into Long Beach, California (San Diego had some construction ongoing and it was much more expensive)
Okinawa and heading home
This will probably be our last blog this trip, so it might be long. We've been in Okinawa for almost a week and wanted to share what the visit has been like. After helping our crew for a couple days, they departed on Monday, July 21st, for San
Arrived (with a Bang!)
After 11 days at sea, we finally arrived in Okinawa on Friday morning! Unfortunately, our arrival was not without incident (more on that in a minute). Since our last blog, we experienced some nice sailing. Winds were good, the seas were calmer, and Jen was mostly back to normal. The
"Stop the engines!"
Day 10 at sea. We saw land on day 8 as we passed around the northern part of the Philippines, otherwise it's been all water. Day 8 was the most "interesting" day we've had so far. It started out by deciding to raise our
Our Yacht Layout
Many of you have asked about what the boat looks like, so I thought I would give you a pictorial tour of where we have lived the past 9 days. Our ride and temporary home is a 55 foot Max Cruise catamaran called Just Ducky. I don't know
Slow Boat to (near) China
Day 7. Quite a lot has changed in the past 48 hours. After 4-5 days of big seas and big winds, everything has calmed. Seas are much calmer and winds have died down, so much so that we have been "motoring" on a diesel engine to help us
Halfway to Okinawa
It's Day 5 of our journey and we are about halfway to our stop in Japan. The reason we are stopping there is to get more provisions and make any needed repairs before crossing the Pacific. So far it's been like the movie Ground Hog Day.
Underway!
After a lot of planning, preparation and waiting, our journey has finally begun! We departed via the mouth of the Saigon river at daybreak on Monday, July 7th. To say we were all excited to finally be leaving would be a huge understatement. Jen and I loved Saigon, but we
Ready to go!
The registration paperwork is finally good! We've cleared customs! We are all set to sail and leaving early tomorrow morning! Finally! For the past two days we finished shopping for food and other needs, and moved on the boat. It took all day to do our shopping and
Happy July 4th!
Well, we're hoping we would be underway on Independence Day. But once again, the paperwork challenges continue. Quick update...the boat registration had another error and once again had to be resubmitted. We THINK that part is now good. All that remains is customs clearance for us to