Amy's family came to visit us in Fiji! Her mom, Lisa; step-dad, Bob; and uncle Phil joined us for a week of sailing around the Yasawa Group as part of Bob's ...
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We did not buy a catamaran to have 6 inches of snow on it! We got hit by the largest snow storm Charleston SC had ever seen according to locals. A few days ...
Amy's family was coming to visit soon, which meant we had to say goodbye to the Lau Group and set sail across Fiji. Usually Amy and I do our passages with ...
For us, when we think of Fijian culture, we always go back to our time in Fulanga. Fulanga is one of the most remote inhabited islands we've ever been to. ...
After setting the hook in Martinique we paddle in to explore beautiful Fort the France. Then Kajsa Leave us to head home to Sweden. And with only 3 people on ...
Fulanga here we come! We're sailing through the incredibly remote Lau Group in Fiji and it's about a 140nm sail from Vanua Balavu down to Fulanga at the ...
Our favorite fluffy crew member finally joins us on the boat! Our dog's name is Arya and she's a samoyed. They're very friendly dogs, but also a little bit... ...
We weren't quite done yet sailing around Vanua Balavu's Inner Lagoon. After the Oyster Rally cleared out, we sailed over to a beautiful spot called Bavatu ...
Our final leg of the trip to Charleston for the refit. We pass through some remote areas of the ICW in Georgia and make our way into South Carolina as the ...
Okay, perhaps that's a bit of hyperbole, but Fiji's Bay of Islands in Vanua Balavu is my pick for the most beautiful place I've ever seen. We had our own ...
As we travel northward Charleston to do our reft the wind and current all turn strongly against us making open ocean progress nearly impossible. So we resign ...
With Starry Horizons finally all fixed up with battens in her mainsail again, we had been itching to go do a proper sail! This time it was on a passage to ...
What do you do when you're sailing east and your good friends are sailing past you going west? Meet up in the middle of the ocean of course! We couldn't pass ...
The time had come to finally say goodbye to Tonga (and all the humpback whales!) and set sail to Fiji. Just one problem... We couldn't use our mainsail! ...
We saved the best of Tonga's Ha'apai Group for last as we were the only humans around to witness a newborn humpback calf being helped to the surface by it's ...
We're back with Gary Fretz for some more expert information. We filmed this before heading north for our refit and wanted to share it as it might help some of ...
Our Tongan Haapai Group adventure continues as we sail to two new islands: Uoleva and Tatafa. We get to do a bit of racing, a bit of fishing and a bit of ...
Finally got our week one video out! It's a big one for us and we had to edit it twice thanks to a dead hard drive... But better late than never. Week one was a ...
The time had come to explore a new part of Tonga: the Ha'apai Group. It's about a 60 mile sail to get there and along the way we got to encounter those ...
Here's a quick walkthrough of our boat and home, a 40' sailing catamaran, pre modifications. This boat is pretty close to what we wanted and needed as a ...
How did we afford our boat? What loan(s) did we use and how did we qualify? We answer all of these things and more. The process has a ton of pitfalls and if ...
With Starry Horizons back on the mend, we set out to explore a place of the Vava'u Group of Tonga we had never been before: Kenutu Island. This is one of ...
Well, here it is. Our favorite National Park, Glacier! Big Sky Country lived up to its reputation. Happy Thanksgiving to all of our crew. As mentioned in the ...
After a long awaited return to Starry Horizons in Tonga, we immediately started re-commissioning her and discovered a serious problem. The anodes on our ...