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Almost There
This piece first appeared in the August 2010 issue of BluePrintReview. It was written on Day 43 of our 44-day passage from Mexico to the Marquesas, and it's part of a longer manuscript which might just...
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Passage Making: On the Importance of Being Ready for Nothing at all
Dolphin at the bow-- a version of this article appeared in Latitudes & Attitudes, December 2010 --Our passage from Mexico to the Marquesas took forty-four days. That’s longer than the gestation...
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The (Road)way of the Orca
We recently spent a day following orcas here in the Bay of Islands. When we were with them they were enjoying sting rays as appetizers. When we left, they were heading for a different bay, presumably...
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Easy Bake Recipe for Stove Burner Repair
Repairing a Faulty Two-Part Burner of a Typical Marine StoveTools: scissors; knock-out punch and mallet; vise grip clamp; duct tape.Materials: top of a tin can; Marine-Tex epoxy puttyTime (including...
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Shit Work
The head discharge line runs up to the cabin top in the "shower," across to the opposite bulkhead, and straight down towards the thru-hull. A couple of days ago our toilet plumbing signaled that it was...
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New Zealand to Fiji (May to September, 2013)
It’s certainly been a while since we posted anything. Now we’re more or less on the move again. We left New Zealand for Fiji in mid-May (2013), a passage to windward that featured, among other things,...
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Vanuatu (September / October 2013)
Our time in Vanuatu was far too brief. For us, it was largely a stopping point along the way to Indonesia. By the time we left Fiji, it was already late in the season and we needed to cover a lot of...
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On the balance of risk, freedom and choice: a response to the Rebel Heart...
Such a fascinating media flurry around the Rebel Heart story -- a family rescued some 900 miles offshore from Mexico. In the last 36 hours we've read hundreds of blog comments attacking the Kaufmans...
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Tual and Debut, Kai Island, Indonesia (November 2013)
Arrival in Indonesia...Arriving in Debut, Indonesia and exploring the anchorage and the surrounding town and countryside of Kai Island was our first introduction to Indonesia. We found ourselves...
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Making Charts from Google Earth
We don’t have a chart plotter per se on Momo. Instead, back in 2006 we installed a low-power PC with a decently sized monitor in the nav station space that once housed the electrical panel. Basically,...
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Vanuatu to Indonesia (October - November 2013)
We bid farewell to Port Vila, Vanuatu on the evening of 13 October, but Port Vila did not want to let us go. We sailed off the anchor only to discover that the CQR was balancing a hefty chunk of rock...
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DIY Siphon
A few months ago while watching an Indonesian fuel broker cup his hands around the top of diesel container and blow into the container to get a siphon going, I came up with this nifty little siphoning...
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Passage from Serangan Indonesia to Puteri Harbour Malaysia, July 2014
We had a pleasant and uneventful passage from Bali to Malaysia, sailing almost dead down wind most of the way. We motored for only a few hours just north of Bali and then again when we arrived in the...
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Podcast interview: sailing? adventure? or merely a way of life?
MehariErik Hemingway is a father of six and a firm believer in adventure. In 2009 he sold all his possessions and moved onto a sailboat with his wife and small children. That’s right: five. And they...
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Paper Dance: from the Mexican Cha-cha to the Springtime Shuffle
Office of Tourism in Tual, IndonesiaBuenas Dias.Bonjour.Fakaalofa atu. Kia ora.Ni sa bula.Selamat pagi.Sailing from country to country, you become well acquainted with officialdom in its various forms....
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Beyond first impressions: Ambon, Indonesia (Dec. 2013)
Had we let our first impressions guide us, we'd never have stayed nearly three weeks in Ambon City. Nestled a good ten nautical miles up the inlet that runs into the center of Ambon Island, Ambon City...
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Wild Phosphorescence (Ko Phaluai, Thailand)
Pinnacle Beach, Ko PhaluaiWhile anchored in four meters of water in a bay on the north of a small Thai island (Ko Phaluai -- lat: 9.550345; long: 99.69351) the other night (28/29 Sept., 2014), I woke...
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Cross-legged: A reflection on the bonding nature of cultural difference
(a version of this essay was published in Takahe 82, August 2014)Chief Watsoni of Makongai, with lunchFiji, 2009. I am sitting cross-legged on a mat woven from voivoi leaves with Watsoni, the village...
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SE Asia Impressions: Bali Street Scenes March 2014
We've been in SE Asia since November 2013 and now that we're looking at saying goodbye to this part of the world, it's high time we post some updates. A different world that we stepped into when we...
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SE Asia Impressions: Bali Nyepi, March 2014
Continuing with our look back at our time in SE Asia, here are some photos from Nyepi.Nyepi is a celebration of the new year, according to the Balinese calendar, and fell in March in both 2014 and...
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