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86 – Motoring All the Way to the Gold Coast
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 airs, Starry Horizons became a motor boat. We hoped that motoring would make this passage pretty easy, but Neptune had a few challenges to th...
85 – ‘Roo Hunting In Lake Macquarie
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 complete our first bar crossing. These can be incredibly tricky but fortunately, Neptune decided to take it easy on us and the waters were ...
80 – Sailing New Caledonia’s Southern Lagoon
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 of Noumea in order to pick him up and once he arrived, we immediately set sail out to the Amedee Lighthouse. Swimming with turtles ...
79 – Cheese, Baguettes and Mexican Food??? Sailing New Caledonia
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. So imagine our surprise to find a grocery store full of Mexican food! After redeeming ourselves with a 1st place finish sailing down from V...
78 – Kava and Lava in Vanuatu
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 definitely didn't disappoint. The big reason for visiting was the chance to hike Mt. Yasur. Oh, and did I mention that it is an ACTIVE volc...
77 – A Fountaine Pajot Regatta to 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 Resolution, Vanuatu. But before we could clear out of Fiji, we had to celebrate the Admiral's birthday! Once that was properly celebrated, the r...
76 – Birthdays and Beachcombers in Fiji
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 60th birthday celebration. We had an absolute blast with them, though I think we've been gone so long we forgot how gifts are ...
75 – Sailing Across Fiji… With Hitchhikers!
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 just the two of us, but this time, we had some hitchhikers! Alifereti and Koroi, two villagers from Fulanga needed a ride to Suva for a co...
74 – Our Fijian Cultural Immersion In Fulanga
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. There's no airport. There's no cruise ships. The only tourists come via sailboat. And it is absolutely worth the trip. We co...
73 – A Two Day Sail to Fiji’s Fulanga
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 southern end. We could do that in an overnight sail, but instead we broke things up with a 70nm sail to Lakemba and then another 70nm s...
72 – Sailing Vanua Balavu’s Inner Lagoon
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 Harbour. We had it all to ourselves and found a nice hike up to a stunning lookout back over the Bay of Islands. It was absolutely m...
71 – Fiji’s Bay of Islands: The Most Beautiful Place on Earth
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 private anchorages, were surrounded by unique mushroom rocks, swam in stunningly blue water and even managed to find enough intern...
70 – We’re Officially A Sailboat Again! (Sailing To Fiji’s Lau Group)
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 Vanua Balavu in the Lau Group on the eastern side of Fiji. This passage must be timed just right so you don't have to bash straight into t...
69 – How To Pull Off A Mid-Ocean Meet Up
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 up the opportunity to hang out with our good friends Lewis and Alyssa from s/v Quixotic as you never know when or where your paths...
68 – Sailing to Fiji with No Mainsail
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've mentioned it in prior videos, but we lost the battens overboard during a storm in Neiafu after I didn't lash them down prop...
67 – We Witnessed The First Breaths of a Humpback Calf!
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 mother in order to take it's first breaths. This was an amazing instance of being in the right place at the right time, an...
66 – Nature is Freaking Lit
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 exploring. Pretty much everything you want to do in the South Pacific! Along the way we learn up close and personal that nature is never at res...
How We Set Up Our Catamaran to Sail Around The World
Over the past three years and 25,000nm, we've turned Starry Horizons, our Fountaine Pajot Helia 44 catamaran, into a true blue water sailing boat. We figured it might be helpful to do a walk-through and highlight what features are important and what options we chose during outfitting that help...
Sailing Around the World – An Out Chasing Stars Presentation
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 half of our sailing circumnavigation. We cover a lot of topics from how we got started and the basics of Starry Horizons all the way to...
We’ve finally found the perfect catamaran! Annapolis Boat Show Pt 2 (Sailing Ruby Rose) Ep. 28
This episode we are lucky enough to be part of the panel at the World Cruising Club Ocean Sailing Seminar, and then we go (hypothetical) catamaran shopping! We line up the Fountaine Pajot Helia, the Nautitech 46 and the Antares 44. Which would we choose? Watch on, dear friends... Thanks so much for...
61 – Sailing S/V Julia Part 4: Our Second Pacific Crossing is Complete!
S/V Julia sailed into Hilo, Hawaii on June 5th after 15 days at sea to mark the end of our second Pacific Crossing! And fortunately, this part of the passage didn't require me to jump in the ocean! Instead, we got to focus on fishing, sailing (after finding the tradewinds) and even doing a fe...
60 – Sailing S/V Julia: Part 3 – We Got Stuck in the Pacific Garbage Patch!
Our second passage across the Pacific Ocean finally begins! San Francisco Bay gifted us a lovely fog to get started and off we went back out under the Golden Gate Bridge. The first few days at sea were a bit rough as we sailed upwind to avoid some nasty weather to the south of us. When we were fi...
58 – Sailing S/V Julia Across the Pacific: Part 1
Apparently, we liked sailing crossing the Pacific Ocean so much, we just had to do it again! This time we hopped on board s/v Julia, a Helia Evolution, to help her owners Tom and Susan learn all about offshore sailing. After tucking Starry Horizons in safe and sound in Tonga, we set off on an epic...