S/V Mabel Rose

Join us for a trip from New York to Tasmania, and back, we hope. Departing Saturday.

Crossing the Line

Aunt Mabel Has Almost Given Up the Ghost But Not Quite

Halfway Awake Cake for the Circumnavigators!

A Good Idea to Luff the Yachts in a Race

Water, Water, Gushing Up and Pouring Down

Light in the Dark Sky: IPad in Oven

Bounding Home through Slap Happy Seas

Mickey Mouse over the Puerto Rico Trench

Bye Bye BVI

Cloud and Sargasso Streets in Deep Water

Norman Island to Jost Van Dyke

Birthday Rainy Rainbow Day

ALast Day on Craggy Volcanic Islands

A Rainy Birthday in Paradise

Charter Cat City

Embrace of a Cave

Beautiful BVI

Babies on the Way and Boats for Sale

Out of Barbuda, Past St Bart, and Into the Anegada

Alarms, Rolls on Movie Night

A Barbudaful Day in the Neighborhood

Sailing to Barbuda

Signs of North America

Antigua Stars: Women Sailors

Waltzing Antigua (Steel Drum Version)

Waterspouts and Gale-ey Gusts Off Guadeloupe

Iles Saintes Day

A Sandy Day on Butterfly Island

Going to Fast

When Les Saintes Come Marching In: Have I Circumnavigated?

Easter Too Northeasterly

Volcanic Peaks Sliding Past

Bye Bye Barbados

Slipping Away

Corals High and Low

Barbados in the Sun

Super Yacht Mabel Rose

Harrison Caves! Eco! Adventure! Park!

Residents Only Beyond this Point

As the Turtles Watch

Doyle Sails, Barbados

Barbados!

Wood Smoke and Flowers

30,000 Miles Upon the Sea

Crossing the Saragossa Lines Obliquely

The Big Dipper Ahead

Halfway There Too Soon

Look Over Your Shoulder

A Glimpse of True North

A Wet Welcome Back from the

Over the Bar and Au Revoir Maroni

A Deltas Depth

Barnacles Grow on the Trees

Down the Maroni and Up a Jungle Crique

Perfect Cold Sweet on a Steamy Day

A Ramble in the Jungle

Where did those Sheep Cross US

Ontonc-Java

Laundry and Border Limbo

Give the Dog a Bone

A River Trip Beneath a Leopard Spotted Umbrella

Into the Water on a Beyond Umbrellas Day

Rainy Day Repairs

Saint Laurent de Maroni

St Laurent’s Umbrellas and Sand

Hot Dogs x2, a Bidet to Safely Cross the Bar

L'Evasion de Papillon

A Haunting Landfall at Isles de Salut

Dim Sun Sunday

A Cutter Crossing the Amazon

Add a Blade and a Now We Have a Real Cutter

Add a Blade and a Now We Have a Real Cutter

A Cutter Crossing the Amazon

RIP Doyle Genoa

White Clothes for Mourning

Halfway There and the Genoa Shreds Itself

Halfway Day with Squalls

Back Across the Line

Trifle Treacle Equator Crossing

The Worst Seven Days on Passage, Ever? (Typos corrected)

The Worst Seven Days on Passage, Ever?

Signs of the Edge

Becalmed Again, Naturally

Just a Minute or

Barracuda!

Reading Clouds, Birds and Fish

Not out of the Doldrums Yet

Spinning Tea Time

In the Doldrums on a a rainy Day

A Slow Walk across the Global Median

In the Doldrums on a a rainy Day

The Sunny Side of the Doldrums

Noddies in the DoldrumsRain

Not Much Progress Atoll

An Atoll with Fins and Rain

A Smashing Noronha Send Off

Done

Taunted by the North Wind

Noronha!

The Best Beach on the World

Brazil Shopping List

And This Beach is Not Even in the Top Ten

Sleep cycle, Spinner Dolphins, Spin Cycle

Guidance of Squalls

Boa Tarde, Noronha!

Driftering Along

The Morning Show

Ocean Chafe

Wing Ding, O-ring or a Zero

Variations on a Theme

Puzzles

Just Another Pleasant Sailing Sunday

Humble to Mediocre to Congested

Pancakes, Halfway Cake, Sourdough Bread and Pizza Pie

Rotten UV

Pancakes, Halfway Cake, Sourdough Bread and Pizza Pie

Steamy Grey Low Energy Day

Rotten UV

Noddies Be Gone

Many Anous Stolidus- Kraak

Sew Be Mine, Valentine

Hoisting Hearts and X's

And the Genoa Went R-i-i-i-i-i-i-p

A Giant Snowman Valentines Eve

Ascension Farewell

Astern a Red Island Greened by Darwin and a Hooker

Looking for Volcanic Tears

Ascension: Into the Cloud Forest

Arrival at an Adolescent Volcano

Ascension Hello

Land Ho! and Hove-To Ascension

Stiff Shirt for a British Island

An Unchange in Plans

Alone in the Cockpit -Almost

Night Squawker Chorus

Where are Those Island Chains?

Dark Nights and Bright Days: Halfway

Not a Quite Piece of Cake Teamwork

Pulling the Drifter

Mango, Leeks, Albatross

Pushing the Drifter

Last Bits of St Helena

Farewell to the Saint Helena Fairy Terns

Back to Sea after Breakfast with Napoleon

Heart in the Rocks

Pacing the Polka Dotted Shark

Saint Helena Coffee, Eggs, and Whale Sharks

The Emperor’s New Retirement Plan

Tours of Tombs Grottos and Tortoises

Fancy Bumping Into You, Grande Large

Egg Quest on St Helena

Lava Cliffs make a Stressful Anchoring

Lava Cliffs make a Stressful Anchoring

Saint Helena Arrival (That's Saint Hel-eeh-na)

Swim Break! And Land Ho!

Pacing Mabel

Playing Sun Tag

A Little Dot

Mahi Mahi Run

Sailing Instructions

Familiar Names

A Drifter Day

Busiswa's Favorite is Celadon

All is Calm at the Prime Meridian

Professor Longitude's Omission

Antibiotics, Novels and Naps

Tropic of Capricorn and the Barca Meridian

One Week Out of Cape Town

Back to Squall School

Halfway Day and Passage Timelessness

Desperate to Bake a Cake

A Good Reach Forward

A Day of Magic Light

Friday Fish Dinner and an Irksome Seamount

Why Pirates wear Kerchiefs

A Stiff Breeze Eases into Night

Reading through a Three Day Blow

Rolling Downwind in a Near Gale

Mind the Plate

Familiar Names

A Mystery Ship Revealed and Rollicking Seas

A Hectic Farewell to Cape Town and S.A

Pies for Lunch Macadamian Nuts for Dinner

Touristing Around Cape Town

South African Selfies and Images

Bars and Hope

Cape Town!

Capetown Greetings

Noon at One Great Cape, Midnight of Good Hope

Clothes for a Special Events

Shades of Grey

A Front then Grey Calm

Nice Ta Know Ya Knysna

A Smooth Exit with Help

Layers of Humanity

A Knysna Day

First at the Bar

Opening in the Wall

Soupy Sailing

No Penguins or Ostrich Feathers but Seahorses

A Fine Day of Sailing But Not Fast Enough

Stinky Ink

A Buffalo River New Years

New Years on the Buffalo River

Tales of the Agulhas

Aguhlas Final Exam

Every Circumnavigators BestDay Ever

Past Unicorns to a Little Stone Cottage

Five Little Ships a Sailing on the Aghulas

In and Out of Durban Among Firnds

Pulling a Currawong

Moving Again

Leaving Richards Bay

Christmas in Zululand: Our Friends All Live Aboard

Crochet Snowflakes and Sweet Company

It’s Beginning to Look a (Tiny Little) Bit Like Christmas

Adios then Splash

High and Dry and Waiting for Dyneema

Big Five Bingo

Safari Tidbits

The Hamilton Pride Coaltion

What is a Safari?

Hoyo Hoyo Lodge

Far Back in Time

Driving in South Africa

Tembe Elephant Park

The Watery Youth of Richards Bay

A Week in Richards Bay

Settling into Richards Bay

Hands of a Community

Zululand Yacht Club - CORRECTED AND REPOSTED

A Welcome Concrete Wall

Across the Sleepy Blue Agulhas into Richards Bay

Butterflies over the Aguhlas

Tailspins and Sail Plans: Reefing in Light Airs

Challenging our Patience

Fishermens Chatter

Black Friday Sailing

Thanksgiving at Sea

More Pie Less Poultry

Severe Clear

Holiday Traffic Jams

Today Was a Day Much Like Yesterdat at Sea

Patience Needed for the Door to Open

Light and Contrary But Still a Fine Day at Sea

America's Joy Beats Australian Marshmallow

Tea on the Foredeck

Halfway Baking Day

Riding West on the South Equatorial Current

Menus and Music in Eddy Land

An Easy Day on the Indian Ocean

Passage Fruits and Cozys

It's a Damn Yankee Plod

Cinderella's Squall Ball List

Mostly Quiet on the Madagascar Front

Pumpkins are Flying But the IPad is in the Oven

Motoring After All on a Glassy Sea.

A Horse, A Dog and Pain Perdu Sliders

You Will Likely Need to be Motoring Monday Through Tuesday.

Time for a Mango Smoothie

Reunion Adieu

Escaping Reunion's Embraces

Reunion Departure Preparations

Haberdashery, Chandlery and Markets

Reunion’s Volcanic Cirques

Reunion’s Volcanic Cirques

Reunion’s Volcanic Cirques

Two Crater Reunion Adventure

Ben the Rigger

Reunion Sunday

Palettes of Spice

Getting Karl Interested in Crocheting

Rigging Failures Everywhere

Past the Growling Gravel

Shifting Winds and French Punctuality at Le Port

Which Way

Landfall Surfcall La Reunion

All Hallows Eve at Sea

Halloween Sounds and Day of the Dead Gotcha

A-Ghoulish Anxiety Attack

A Halfway Green Flash

A Pleasant First Day of Passage

The Octopus has My Wallet

Rodrigues Adieu

The Last of the Island Where They Walk on Water

Moving through our Lists

Port Mathurin Port Day

Rodrigues, C’est Un Ile Francais

Any Dead Bodies?

101 Flowers and a Vase

Swim Break

Off With Her Head

Sail Change

Turning along a Flow Line

Just Loafing Along

Shifting Light

From the Logbook on an Uneventful Day

Kindness of Strangers

Glimpses Mid Passage

Progress Wiggles on the Chart

Voltage Drop

Why is My Lifejacket Turning Pink?

Marking Progress on the Paper Chart

Clouds and Dreams

Your Mid-Ocean Menu: the Pickled Pepper Passage

Chief Morale Officer Duties

Your Mid-Ocean Mid-Night Set List

No Tears Over Spilt Milk

Altered States

Only Magellanic Clouds

High Seas Halfway

Books for Cakes and Stars

The Loneliest Ocean

Identifying Ships

Rolling Down the Rolling Sea

Knife Out

Surprisingly Smooth Sailing So Far

Blog xxx95 Astronomy at 8 Meteorology at 12

Just a Lazy Saturday Sail

Bubbles and Books

Fixing Stuff at Sea

Pumps in the Night

Antipodal

Our Biosecurity Problem

Water in the Bilge

Sailing West with Full Cupboards

Lightering Day at Christmas Island

Flowers for Sarah

Cove Day Watery Celebration

The View From the Anchorage at Flying Fish Cove

Warship calling Mabel Rose

Quizzed by the Australian Navy on Christmas Island Morning

The Loneliest Ocean

The View From the Other Side of the World

Antipodal Pancakes

Smooth Sailing on the Indian Ocean

No Luck with Light Decoder

Pretty Good Sailing, Provisioning Anxiety

The Hoarding Begins

Much Better Sailing Today

That Current

Light Winds, Fair Current, Rocky Seas

Faces of Bali

Trying to Clear Indonesia

A Bureaucratic Bali Farewell

Tenganan Village, Rice Terrace Trek, and Tirta Gangga

Sweet Water in the Green

KlungKung and Sidemen

Surgeon Karl - Success

Still Fixing the Boat in an Exotic Place

Air is Water

What a Whirly Wavey Day

Clawing Our Way Into Serangan

Lombok Stress Test

Something Went Bang in the Lombok Strait

Into the Indian Ocean

Enjoying Kupang Treats

Approaching Rinca

Slipping Down the Sawu Sea to Rindja

Not So Fast

Enjoying Kupang Treats

Kupang Awaking

Hi Bye Kuoang!

The Last Stamp

Checking in to Indonesia in Just One Whole Entire Day

Anticipation

Made it to Kupang

Signs of Improvement

A Little More Timor Sea to See

Sailing by Day, Drifting by Night

Towards the Spice Islands

Leaving the Beagle Gulf

Slipping Into That Smooth Timor Sea Time

Striking the Australian Flag

Departing Darwin

Where the Cool Water Flows in the Dry

Bingo

A Day of Crocs and Rocks

Rock Galleries of Art

Crocs on the Ceiling

Tiwi Islands

Ospreys on Tiwi

Going Bikeabout in Darwin

Indicators of the Tropics

Learning the Landscape

Water Depth 6 inches

Mussel Bound at Cullens Gate

From the Red Light Dinner to Darwin

Missing Our Tide in Van Diemen Gulf

Into Van Diemens Gulf

Alcaro Bay

Snowy Night No Crocs

Approaching Dundas Strait

Arafura Sea Waves

Just Another Pleasant Arafura Sea Day

Where are we?

Across the Gulf of Carpentaria

Across the Gulf of Carpentaria

Westward Light Halfway There

Black, White and Flat

A Relief To Be Sailing the Arafura Sea

Among Americans in Endeavor Straits

Historic Intersection

Between a Quart and a Gallon, and Other Squeezes

Between a Rock and A Reef and Really Big Ships

Lads Passage Among Ships: Wide Awake at Midnight

Narrow Passages

Smooth Coral Coasting

Smoke and Sand

Sailing Out of Cairns into a Tricky Passage

Sailing Out of Cairns into a Tricky Passage

Wine Stains and Tears

Rainforest Two Day Tourists

Reef Day Tripper

A Dieing Reef and on to Cairns

Draped Scarf Instead of a Beret​

Fitzroy Island

Bigger and Noisier then Nemo

Chasing the Great Barrier Reef

Look for the Arrows

Magnetic Koalas Stick to Trees

A Water Town

Going to Town

Going to Town(sville)

Libraries in the Sky

Rolling Down The Blue Green Seas Again

Wodda Moolie

Ancient Art of Ochre and Waves

Grilled Cheese and Hot Cocoa

Unlucky Friday

Turtles and Trash

Trash Talk Walk: One More Day at Shaws

An Intertidal Day

Another Day Holed Up at Shaw

Freshening Southerlies

Shaw Island Internet Anchorage

Coal and the Great Barrier Reef

Sparkling Days and Moonlit Nights on the Coral Sea

Grafitti or Connectivity

Clear Sailing on the Coral Sea

Clear Sailing on the Coral Sea

Morning on Musgrave

Sailing into Capricorn

Driving Into the Great Barrier

Tucked in at Lady Musgrave

Around the Great Sand and on to the Great Coral

Washing Machine Bites

Leaving the Narrow Channel

On Our Way Around Great Sandy Cape

Local Knowledge

Conversations in Moolooba

In Search of Stinger Suits

The Edge of Land and Sea

Mooloolaba Bar

Growly Sighs in the Coral Sea

Growly Sighs in the Coral Sea

Sails Flogging Sleep off Cape Moreton

Cetacean’s View of Australia

Something in the Deep

Squeak, Rattle, and Roll on the Macquarie Coast

Going Back to Work

Slap Bang Wow

Down from the Mountains

Looking for Dingos

Last Days on Skis

Chairlift Speed Dating

The Alps Emerge

Alpha Ski Lodge

Nordic Morning, Alpine Arvo

An Alien Snowscape

What They Call Snow in Australia

From JellyFish to Icy Snow Gums

Night Train to the Snow

Departing with Predawn Fireflies

Marks in Sydney’s Sandstone

Drifting Into Quarantine

Snug in Wreck Bay

A Visit to the NSW Land and Environmental Court

Sydney’s White Shepherds

North Head Whale Watch and a Sri Lankan Repast

Haunting Red Hand

Blue Mountains, Red Hands

Rainy Day Bays

Into the Pond

CYCA

A Tourist Day in Sydney, a Night at the Opera

Surprizes

A City That Sleeps

City of Sails

Three Anchorages

Emerald City of Oz

An Arrival Mabel Would Love

A Brisk Little Sail Into Sydney Harbor

Historic Stops on Our Wayagar

Places of First Arrival: Jibbon Point and Botany Bay

Going Gently Into Port Hacking

Sleeping in Uggs

Along the Misty Coast

A Narrow Shelf

Taking a Break at Broulee Bay

Dragging, Out of Bed, Under Weigh

Northward with Company

Gabo: A New Island

Gabo Island: Many Whales and a Few Little Penguins

Landfall at Daybreak

A Pleasant Sail Back to Australia

Into the Whistling Thirties

In the Company of Whales

Not a Reach Up The Tassie Coast

Lady Barron's Birds

Not a Reach Up The Tassie Coast

Tassie Farewell: A Toast to Wineglass Bay

Wombat on the beach

Between a Dark Rock and a Hard Place on Schouten Island

The Pork Farmers Rumor

It Took a Hacksaw

Sailing Away From Hobart Town

Hobart Town Paints Itself Red

Postcards from Hobart

Two Days Before The Mast on the Lady Nelson

The Wukalina Walk

Mona Roma: Glass Onion on the Derwent

Easter Rainbows and a Near Gale Up the Channel

Holed Up in Deephole Bay for an Easter Gale

Jumping Out of Waterfalls (Since Ocean Sailing Isn’t Thrilling Enough)

Back Across Stormy Storm Bay to Hobart

Port Arthur

Across Storm Bay to Port Arthur

Hitchhiking to Hartz

42 – Our Number in Tasmania

Down the Entrecousteaux and up the Huon

Getting our Feet Under Us

Tasmania!

Grins upon Arrival

Finding the Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything in Hobart

Almost Hobart

Flight Paths to Antartica

Tasmania Landfall

Halfway To Hobart

Styrofoam, Flowers or Spooky Halloween Heads

A Hard Beat Towards Hobart

Out of Eden

End of the Holiday Weekend in Eden

New Year Laughter Learning and Tear

New Years Beach Day

Blog 207 Rolling New Year

Extending Eden Into the New Year

Two Fold Bay Shuffle Synapse

In Edenic Limbo With the Q Flag Flying

You Know You Are in Australia...

Into Australia

Checking in at Eden

Landfall: Eden

The Sydney Hobart Race East of Eden

Biosecurity Boxing Day

Boxing Day

A Maritime Christmas with Tradition

Silent Night

The Eternal Twilight of the Ocean Sky

Finders Seamount Landscapes

Halfway There, and a Mid-Ocean Underwater Repair

The Differences

Nothing Much to Report Except a Couple of Whales

Two Albatross Day

Midnight, Clear

I Did Not Kill the Albatross

Lovely Weather for a Sailboat Together

Moving Ahead But Far Away

Three Kings of Calm

Three Kings Gifts

Days of Boredom

Plankton Christmas

A Long Goodbye to Aotearoa

Sailing in a Sock

Bound for Australia

Into the Brume

Splashback!

Splashback!

Chasing Kiwis and Christmas in a Car

Out of the Water

We Have A Lawn

Along the Coast

Blue Star Hobart Bound?

Down the Coast to the Mouth of the Whangerei

Otewhango Passage

Saudade -Untranslatable

Two Days in Port in the Wind and Rain

Back On Board

Northbound Generosity

Working Our Way Back to the North Island, Mostly Overland

Blame the Kea

Mountains Laced with Water and Ice

Milford Sound is Even More Spectacular

Doubtful Aluminum Adventures

Paddling Doubtful Sound

A Change in Climate at Tasman Glacier

Rocks Snow and Gravity

Moa Land Holes

Sealeys Tarns - A Splendid Day in the High Mountains

Ice Retreating from Mt. Mabel

Hooker Glacier

Flea Bay Kayaking

Blue Penguins Help the Helps

Banks Track to Penguin Cottage

Leaving Wilderness Lodge

The Valley of the Mother of Rainbows

Soggy Mountain Meadows

Pigs, Poison and Pastures

Arthur’s Pass Wilderness Lodge

What Would a Moa Eat

From Sound to Mountains by Boat Bus and Train

Dinner on a Debris Flow

A Day Afloat But Not on the Mabel Rose

Cold Bubbles

Three Days in Wellington in Travel Guide Style

Why Not Sail Around New Zealand?

Working on My Pepeha

We Put Rivendell in Google Maps and it Sent Us Up Mt Doom Instead

Not a Hobbit Walking Party

Tongariro Crossing

From Tepid Baths to Golem’s Pool

Driving to Mt Doom

Big Trees to Urban Buzz

Packing Our Bags, Off to See the Big Trunks

What You Find At the End of the Rainbow

Back to the Marina

Te Hau: Gale Warning

Mihi to the Birds

Urupukapuka Island

Roberton Island

Typing on my Ipapa

A Bouncing Karl

On my Feet Again at Waitangi, Under Protest

My Favorite Boats in Opua Harbor

Still on my Bottom - Not Much to Report

Signs of Spring in Opua

Leaning on Your Boat Buddies

Spooky Stories from the Laundry

Rainy Day in Opua

How Do You Know It Is New Zealand?

Opua is a Great Place to Fix Your Boat

Fishers Dawn

They Let Us in to New Zealand!

Tongan Heron at Sunrise

And Then the Sea Grew Still

You Must Eat This Chocolate

A Change in Destination

No Street Signs on a Cloud Street

Some Lines Crossed

Pink Slime is Not Comfort Food

Eighty Miles in the Squash Zone, Hear That Southeast Wind Moan . . .

Squash Zone Menu

Squash Zone Prep

So Many Different Perspectives

Out of the Tropics, Onto the Tongan Ridge

Bubbles and Chocolate

Fakatonga the Tonga Way

Another Fine Day of Sailing and Then the Wind Died

Flying Passion

All at Sea Again

When Are You Leaving?

Swallow Cave

Sunrise on the Tonga Kermadec Trench

Feast

Tongan Sunday

Is It Ethical....

Swimming with Whales

Kangaroos on the Yeast

Tropicana Cafe

A Tonga Door Opening

A Pleasant Afternoon Sail to Tonga

Sunrise on the Tonga Kermadec Trench

Squalls, Squalls, and More Squalls

Why Chichester Sailed Naked

Slowly Sailing Out of the Squalls and into a Moon Shot

Confused Seas Jinx

Squally Weather

Just a Whispy Cloud

Wa-hoo!

7 The Smells at the Turn for Tonga

Forty Banana Halfway Cake

Banana Bread Blogs

Into Passage Routine

Squall School

What Do You Do With Sixty Ripe Bananas

Banana Rain Not in Forecast

Staying North of Trouble

Not Enough Pamplemousse

Sailing Off the Edge Again

Voyagers Route

Paradise Faded

Nana Bora Bora

Conch Horns at Dawn

Waiting for Bateau (Provisioning in Bora Bora)

Passage Prep/Bottom Prep

Petanque in our Future

Fitting In

A Flock of Eagles Soared Over the Garden

Afternoon in Bora Bora

Women at the Helm

Kiteboarding Breakthrough!

A New View of Rainbows

Mata Pupu Peak

A Mermaids Saturday

Just a Couple of American Tourists

Friday on Tsunami Route 16

Tuna Hunt!

The Public Beach

What Happened to the Catamaran Poeme

Back to School

Bora Bora Ancestors and Weather

One More Petroglyph

A Change in Plans and a Short Hike

Hot to the Touch

Bicycling Bora Bora

Mailboxes and Couples

Three Squalls

Bora Bora by Dark

Market Morning and Night Passage to Bora Bora

An Urban Volcano

Her Shawl Slipped off her Shoulders

So Many Waterfalls

Vacations for Some

Papeete is Also a Nice Place to Spend a Day Fixing Your Boat

Papeete is Also a Nice Place to Spend a Day Fixing Your Boat

No Expectations Repair Port

Tahiti Landfall Cable Fail

Sailing to Papae'ete

The Sprite and The President

A Rainy Day Polynesian Storybook

What the Sharks See

The Sharks Watch

Cruise Ship Sunday

Blue Lagoon Summer Camp

Rangiroa, much sky

All Roosters No Hens?

Reconnecting. Wires, that is.

Vas-Tu Va’a?

Iaorana Va’a Dream

Connected to the Sea at an Early Age

All the Dolphins We Never Did See

Reef Fragment Cairns

Morning Post, Afternoon at the Aquarium

The Name of the Motu is Reporepo

A Matter of Perspective

A Minor Rescue in Tiputa Pass

Through the Pass

Feeling Edgy About Rangiroa Landfall

If you get wet…

Halfway to the Dangerous Islands, No Complaints

Washing Away the Black Sand

Orion Is Upside Down and Backwards

The Ocean Light

Farewell Fenua Enata

Into a Watery Petroglyph

Taioha’e Tourism Day

Hetuotemoana �" Star of the Ocean

Contrasts

Baie Taioha'e

Do Not Cry Over Spilled

Fixing My Boat in Another Exotic Port

Round and Sharp

The Royal Road to a Hidden Waterfall

KANAHAU:Three Mysteries Resolved

Around to the Other Side of Nuku Hiva

Over the Mountain to an Ancient Village

Generosity and History

Travels and Tension, East and West

Just a Fluke in the Morning, Afternoon in Baie Anaho Paradise

Bay of Bedevilment

Reconsidering Kleptoparisitism

Willy Wonka in the Heart of Darkness

Vaka and Petanque

Hakahau Sunday

Her Valley

Dark Departures and Arrivals

Crossing to Ua Pou

Just Another Beach Day

Visitors to Te Henua ‘Enana

Lay Day in Vaitahu

Welcoming Beach

Beach Day

Quick Crossing to Tahuata

The Wind Blows Here

Feeling the Geology of Fatu Hiva

The High Road to Omoa

Ascension Day

Anniversary Sunday in Fatu Hiva

So Many Volcanos, Sailboats, Harbors and Waves

An Adolescent Island

Sailing to Fatu Hiva

Puamou and Its Tiki Garden

The Power of the Atmosphere

Cliffs and Petroglyphs

Finding the Front Garden Petroglyphs

The Ocean Made Us Work

Hanamenu Plantation to Hanaiapa Village

Cues of Tropical French Polynesia

Balancing Arrivals and Departures

Arrivals and Departures

The Yard at Baie Tahauku

Ka’oha Communities, Visitors and Chickens

The Yard at Baie Tahauku

Entering the Misty Mountains

A Day in Port in Atuona

Anchored in a peaceful place

Landfall on an Island

Moonlit Landfall on a Dark Archipelago

Anchoring Apprehension

Slowing Down on Purpose

Flying Fish Star Gazy Frittata

Steady as She Goes

Denab, Menkar, Betelgeuse and Fatu Hiva

A Sunlit Day A Starlit Night

The Missing Painter Mystery

What I do in the Darkness

The Seas on the High Seas Really Are High

Navigating by Stars or Boobies

Time is a Little Warped Here, Too

Pacific Pursuit

The Sound of Flying Objects

A Wrinkle in Soggy Chart Space

Surfboard or Bobsled

A Night of Squalls

Finding Orion with a New Belt

Trade Winds?

Halfway Dinosaur Cake

Halfway There

Looking Back With Vonnegut and Forward with Melville

Ocean Atmosphere Dance

Old Sailors Should Not Try New Tricks Mid-Ocean

A Cure for a Black Iguana Hangover

The Ocean Just Teems

Mostly not Squid

In the Night Galley

A Wonder of the World

Water Maker

Pacific Pursuit

Ink in the Sink

Airborne Squid Squadron

How to Cook Dinner and Sail a Boat at the Same Time.

Sailing Into the Clear, Pacific.

A Panting Booby

Thwap

Good Bye Galapagos!

Faces Fade into the Garua

Precious Drops

Au Revoir Appoline!

Stocking Up, Taking Stock

Lava Tunnels and Lunch

Los Tuneles de Bella Vista

Signs of Danger

Taxi Strike!

Anchor Alarms at an Urban Mecca

Santa Cruz

Crashing Waves

Concha de Perlas

Squealing Balloons

The Independence Crew

Geology by Feel

Sierra Negra, Claro

Mabel’s Bookshelf

Muro de las Lagrimas

Paddle to the Penguin, Pedal to the Tortoise

Land’s Embrace

Sunset Traffic at Puerto Villamil

Unreal Landscape

Young and Old Islands

Inter-Galoptic Star Travel

Who Let those Geese Aboard

The Pulse of the Harbor

In Search of Giant Tortoise

A Curious Tourist

This Ancient Mariner Finds his Albatross

A Sea Lion Heart

Darwin’s Missing Cinder Cone

Catching Up with the Sea Turtles

Another Misty Crater Lake

Volcano Ecotone Poems

Laid Back Galopagoan Sunday

We Happy to Report You Passed the Test

Culture Above and Below the Waterline

Awaiting Inspection, Puerto Baquerizo, Galapagos

Professor and Selkie Pass the Exam

Landfall in the Galapagos

A Pretty Cool Equator Crossing

Booby Boards on the Nazca Plate

A Difficult Day on a Difficult Pasage

Booby Boards on the Nazca Plate

Cocos Plate Waltzes and Tangos

Halfway There

33 Degrees of Wonder

Tropic Disorientation

Listening to the Petrels

Throwing Rainbows Darts

Sailing in Company on a Grey Rainy Day

Panama's Sloppy Wet Kiss Good Bye

Tinder Dating Offshore- AIS

Welcome says the Pacific

A Pleasant Sail Across the Gulf of Panama

A Strawberry Full Moon Shift to Hot Bunks

Mountain with Mist

Panama City and Las Brisas anchorage

Into the Pacific

To Reach a New Ocean

Waiting for a Pilot

Mice Join the Contra Dance

Rainy Season is Here

Santa Arrives

Morning at the Mall, Afternoon in the Jungle

Diving into the Jungle

Waiting for Transit

A Floating Community Moving West (Mostly)

PanamArrival

Reflections on the Sea

Where is that Rainbow Going?

Another Languorous Day

Chocolate as a Last Meal

Tropic Torpic

The Jamaican Cloud Painter

Halfway There in Distance Only

A Cool Breeze in a Tropical Sea

Under Caribbean Stars

First Squall

Settling into the Pelagic Routine

Looking Seaward

Hard to Leave Even with Sweet Mangos

Passage Lag

Jamaica Fun

Notes on Jamaica

Avoiding the Ants for a Safe Landfall

Made it to Port Antonio, Jamaica

Cuban Waves and Beaches

Passing by the Sun in Caicos Passage

Crossing Edges and Traffic

Into The Easterly Trades

Navigating By the Star

Miscalculated Halfway There Apple Cake

One Week at Sea

Flying south across the stars

Blood on the Deck over the Abyssal Plains

Drifter Day

An Easy Day on the Sleepy Blue Ocean

How to Teach A Curious Selkie Celsius

The Green Blanket

A Curious Selkie

Nothing to Report

It,'s a Bluewater World

First Night at Sea

Just Assume

Just Assume

Will you have soup for starters?

Sailing for Tasmania with the Midnight Tide

Stocking up

Test post

Pushing the Drifter

Riding West on the South Equatorial Current

A Maritime Christmas with Tradition

Christmas Green Flash

The Public Beach