After a very restful night at The Garden Farm, we traveled to Tikehau Manta Cleaning Station. It's located just off a small Motu. Motu is word the Polynesians use for a small island in an atoll or off ...
Tikehau Manta Rays & Exploring an Atoll
Tikehau in the Tuamotus Ile d Eden
We left Nuku Hiva for our next 5 day passage. We started in the afternoon, and were rewarded on our first night with around 20-30 dolphins that stuck around for about 30 minutes. We hadn't seen many d ...
Exploring the Marquesas
Our first stop was Hanamoenoa Bay. What a treat! We finally enjoyed a calm anchorage and caught up on sleep. This bay is known for being one of the few calm anchorages, plus we had the opportunity to ...
Crossing the Pacific to Marquesas Islands
We left the Galapagos Islands for Marquesas Islands on March 4th 2026.The Galapagos are south of the Equator so now where officially sailing in the southern hemisphere. Luckily this passage was mostly ...
Galapagos
After 50 years of dreaming of coming to Galapagos, I've finally made it! Our Passage was rather more eventful than I was hoping. Our original Starlink finally died. Naturally we were in the middle of ...
Panama Canal & Las Perlas
We were excited to be finally going through the canal. The World ARC had us go through as a group. There were 4 groups of 2 or 3 boats a piece. There are 3 locks but the first lock as 2 sections to br ...
Preparing for the Panama Canal and Beyond
In Preparing for long distance sailing, we've done a few things that will help, to keep the boat going through our circumnavigation. 1st is more Solar... Yes that's what I said. We now have 1900 Watts ...
Cruising Panama's Caribbean Coast
We spent December cruising along Panama's Coast from the Darien Gap of Panama up through the San Blas and onto Shelter Bay. After checking in we spent a few days at a very quite bay with only us and ...
Sapzurro Colombia in the Darien Gap
After 5 weeks in Cartagena Colombia, it was time to move on. We loved out stay, but I was excited to move west. We motored to the Rosario Islands on the day of check out. It was great to have a moorin ...
The Villages of Colombia's Highlands
The first stop was of the Village of Barichara. It's a quaint Village, and since we there during the off season there weren't any visitors. It's described as the most beautiful village in all of Colom ...