O'VIVE PACIFIC CROSSING

A family travels from Florida to New Zealand aboard their St Francis 50 catamaran

08 May 2013
06 September 2011 | Brisbane
04 September 2011 | 26 02S 155 59E
03 September 2011 | 24 35S 159 23E
02 September 2011 | 23 21S 162 56E
31 August 2011 | New Caledonia
30 August 2011 | 21 10S 168 312E
29 August 2011 | 21 25S 171 52E
28 August 2011 | 21 03S 175 17E
27 August 2011 | 20 17S 178 49E
26 August 2011 | 19 26S 177 46W
25 August 2011 | 18 48S 174 20W
23 August 2011 | Neiafu, Tonga
21 August 2011 | 19 00S 170 22W
18 August 2011 | 19 45S 168 16W
15 August 2011 | Beverage Reef
14 August 2011 | 19 39S 166 06W
12 August 2011 | 18 52S 160 14W
03 August 2011 | Aitutaki
01 August 2011 | 18 18S 157 49W

Las Perlas to Galapagos day 1

22 May 2011 | 06 26.25N 080 26.40W
David
It may seen that this trip is not fun anymore reading the entries around Panama City. Well hopefully all that is behind us now. Yesterday was wonderful, we lifted anchor at 5:50am in order to get a good days run in before it was too dark to see. Again we saw quite a few logs but they started to thin out rapidly as the day went on. By 9am we had landed 2 large tuna and 4 Mahi Mahi as well as 3 bonito which we released. So tuna sushi for lunch and mahi mahi on the grill for diner. The day was filled with other sea life as well including seeing a marlin jump out of the water, a huge ray jump out of the water, turtles, mahi mahi jumping while chasing smaller fish, porpoise jumping and swimming under the bow, and numerous birds that stayed with us using our boat to scare the small flying fish out of the water at which point they would swoop down and grab them midair. We made 93 miles from 6am to 6pm and 44 miles from 6pm to 6am this morning due to keeping the speed down to 3 knot at night. The wind has been from 12 knots to 0 knots and blowing from dead astern to right on the nose during this first 24 hour period. No rain for the last few days which is unusual for this time of year around here. We still have another 50 miles to the area we hit the log on the first attempt so a sharp watch will be kept all day and then another slow night.
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Vessel Name: O'Vive
Vessel Make/Model: St Francis 50' catamaran
Hailing Port: Tavernier, Florida USA
Crew: David, Alec, Emilie, Nathalie
About: Captain David, 1st mate, Nathalie and the crew Alec (12) and Emilie (15)

O'VIVE UNDER WAY...

Who: David, Alec, Emilie, Nathalie
Port: Tavernier, Florida USA