Our road trip continues as we make it to the absolutely stunning Great Ocean Road. It may only be 151 miles (243km) long, but it quickly rose up the list to ...
Out Chasing Stars
There comes a time when you're just ready to get away from boats for a while. And after a years worth of sailing, capped off by several weeks of projects, we ...
Starry Horizons needed a bit of TLC so we headed up to The Boat Works in Coomera for a spa day/weeks. Tops on the to-do list was a mini electrical refit to ...
It is always our preference to sail, but when faced with the choice of sailing in high southerly winds and huge swells (against the EAC) or motoring in light ...
The next stop in our Australian Adventure takes us 40nm up the coast to Lake Macquarie. The sail was pretty easy but the entrance into the lake required us to ...
For the last year, we'd had one date circled on the calendar: New Year's Eve in Sydney Harbour. And we finally made it... David's family flew halfway around ...
It's always nice to get a speed boost when on a passage and the East Australian Current is about as big as they get. Sailing down from Coffs Harbour to ...
This year, we chose to sail down to Australia in order to escape the South Pacific cyclone zone. And our first port of call was the beautiful Coffs Harbour. ...
Turns out, sailing fast is rather fun! Who knew??? After our friend Kyle left from New Caledonia it was time to get south for cyclone season so we set sail ...
After 3 years of sailing on Starry Horizons, the time had come to replace our old AGM battery bank with something new. We were ready for Lithium. Doing the ...
Our friend Kyle visits for round 2 in the South Pacific, this time to go sailing in New Caledonia's Southern Lagoon. We'd made our way back to the main city ...
When you think of New Caledonia and other French territories, your mind immediately goes to cheese, baguettes, wine, pate and all the other French delicacies. ...
After a rough passage from Fiji, we were looking forward to exploring a new country. We only ended up staying for 5 days, but Port Resolution in Vanuatu ...
The time had come to depart Fiji and this time we had a bit of company. Two other Fountaine Pajot catamarans joined us for the passage over to Port ...
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 ...
You asked, we answered! And man were there a lot of questions! We got questions ranging from finances (not a surprise), to relationships and even what size ...
You've got questions, we've got answers (or at least some amusing ramblings). Want to know Amy's favorite color (it's blue just FYI), why we chose to sail ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This video marks a (dare I say: triumphant?!) return to the chronicles of our world travels. After helping safely deliver s/v Julia across the Pacific, we ...
You asked for it, and here it is! This is the presentation we gave at my Grandma's retirement community in Bellevue, WA on April 30, 2017, covering the first ...