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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 had reached that point.
In order to recharge our batteries, we left Starry Horizons on the hard and set out for a six week tour around ...
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 replace our AGM batteries with Lithium. This was a complicated project that was beyond our comfort level so we brought in a few experts. Jack...
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...
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 ...
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 the world to join us for the holidays and we spent several weeks together exploring Australia. We got out to visit the (very ...
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 Sydney, we went out to the 100 meter depth line and started flying. The wind was from the north and we had a wide window to arrive in Sydney ...
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.
We'd arrived just before a big front rolled through that brought southerly winds, so we ended up staying for longer than anticipated. F...
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 on the passage to Coffs Harbour, Australia. And it was an absolute blast!
The wind was perfect, staying at about 15 knots AWS on a broad rea...
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 swap over required almost a complete re-work of our 12v electrical system in order to do things properly. We installed a 720Ah 12v LiFePO4 ho...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 shoe we'd wear on the moon. We did our best to answer them all, so hopefully there's something in here that you'll find of int...
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 around the world, or more details about something on Starry Horizons? Ask away!
While we're out on our tour of Aust...
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...
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...
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 magnificiant reason we came back to Tonga: humpback whales!
We got to experience several 'heat runs' which is where male humpb...
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 those absolutely picturesque South Pacific Islands. It's surrounded by a reef, uninhabited with a gorgeous beach, palm trees everywher...
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 saildrives had completely disappeared and the saildrives had started corroding!
This was something that required immediate fixing and fortunately...
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 were in no hurry to leave Hawaii, especially since neither of us had ever visited before!
We spent a week in total which included a quick road ...
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...
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...
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