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…
As dawn breaks, we can see O´ahu’s skyline and the famous Diamond Head. The air out here on the ocean is clean and clear so we have been able to see Honolulu’s lights from far away. We’ve reached Honolulu and I guess it is first now that we truly realize we have sailed to…
We made landfall on Marui two weeks before Carsten’s daughter, husband, and our two grandchildren flew in. Viggo is eight and Frida is six, the whole family flew in from San Francisco to visit us on Maui. Maui is the next largest Hawaiian island after Hawaii- The big island. We’re on a mooring ball just…
We get a weather window on January 22nd that will allow us to sail from Hilo to Maui. We’ve waited a long time for this – we need to feel some sunshine. We haven’t seen the sun for almost three weeks now – since New Year’s it has rained the proverbial cats and dogs…
First off, we need to understand some things about Hawaii – actually, there are two of them. There is Hawaii, the state, consisting of Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, Kahoolawe and Hawaii (The Big Island) and some small islands. Hawaii, the southernmost island is called Hawaii, but in order to know what everyone is talking…
At 08:00 Friday November 15, 2019 we haul the anchor and sail out of the bay at Nuku Hiva and set a course for Hawaii. We could have sailed for Hawaii directly from Bora Bora, but that would have meant it would have been an “uphill” sail all the way to Hawaii. Not many…
Our log read 6,676nm the day we sailed from Copenhagen and now it reads 26,676. We crossed the 20,000 nautical milepost on our five-day passage from the Tuamutos to Nuku Hiva. This passage was directly against the trade winds, currents and swells so we chose a weather window that promised little wind the first…
As you probably already know, life doesn’t always go as planned and we seem to constantly be changing our plans. This is one of the privileges of being a long-term cruiser – we live the free life. Our new motto is: “We have no plans and – by golly- we’re going to stick to…
Our good friends Carsten and Vinni invited us to be their guests on board their boat, Capri while they sailed in the Society Islands of Polynesia. This is an offer you only get once in your life so we didn’t spend much time thinking about our answer. We left Copenhagen on July 5th and…
We’re now on Tahiti, but before I write about Tahiti we need to finish our tale about the Tuamutos, specifically Toau. Toau is a large atoll with a population of four. Valentine (born here) and her husband Gaston, her sister and her husband are the entire population. There is a little pass through the reef…
