Dear friends and readers, Vinni and I were appalled at the events that transpired in and around the Capitol Building in Washington. We have been fortunate enough to travel in many areas of the United States, sailing up and down the east coast, spent several months on Hawaii and have now sailed in and around…
Early Christmas greetings to all our readers, friends and family Carsten and I are sending you early Merry Christmas wishes since so many of you are asking how Vinni’s treatments are going. It is almost four weeks since I was operated. I had a breast preserving operation that went way our expectations. Just a week…
Dear friends and readers, Many of you have begun to ask “So- how’s life as a landlubber cruising around in your “Hippiecamper” going?” Unfortunately, we can’t answer that since once again we’ve been forced to interrupt our adventures due to illness. I’ve been diagnosed with precancerous growths in my one breast and have flown back…
Two days before we left Port Townsend, some nasty weather ran over us. A low-pressure front sent powerful winds from the south up through the fjord and across our anchorage. We are only three boats here on anchor, the rest have sought refuge in the marinas or on other anchorages. We haven’t had that possibility…
After 25 days at sea we’ve arrived and are tied up in Port Angeles Marina in Port Angeles, Washington. Before leaving Hawaii, we spent considerable time discussing if we should drop our Alaska plans and sail back into the South Pacific instead. Covid-19 had closed Canada and the Inland Waterway for sailors, so going north…
When you read our blogs or watch our videos, you frequently hear us talking about GRIB files and downloading them. GRIB files is “Greek” to those of you who aren’t bluewater cruising sailors. Since one of our “landlubber” readers asked us to please explain this and make a video – we’ve now done that.…
We took in our lines and sailed out of Ali Wai harbor early Thursday morning intending to meet up with Minstrel Boy, a Canadian boat that was to be our “buddy boat” for the passage. They were in Ko ilina marina, further along the coast. Well a crappy start, an hour after we left…
It is now mid June and Vinni and I are preparing for our passage to Seattle and Canada. We’ll leave later in the coming week. The passage is about 2700nm and we expect it will take us 18-20 days – depending naturally on wind and weather. So what do we do during those long lonesome…
Vinni We’d, via the press, followed the spread of the Corona virus from Wuhan in China. We hoped that the Chinese would be able to contain it, but it quickly spread to the rest of Asia, then Europe and finally the US and the rest of the world. A pandemic was started. Many…
The winds of war The Second World War was a long time coming in the Pacific. In Japan, the military held the actual power, not the civilian government. The military had ambitions to gain control over all Asia and the Pacific. In 1931, Japan started on its territorial conquests by invading Manchuria and…
