Sailing with Celestial's Tripp

We are a Tripp 47 racing boat turned cruiser that we bought in Maine in 2009. We sailed it through the Panama Canal and up to Seattle then back to Mexico and over to Hawaii in 2012.

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We are forced off our anchorage spot

27 August 2012 | Kaneohe Bay
Donna/ Very rainy and gusty
It was a bit scary at the Ok Coral today. We spent two nights at our close-to-the-sand bar/reef spot knowing we should be secure since the winds were consistently blowing us off the reef. Unfortunately the winds started gusting to 25-35 and we started to drag. We held just beyond our .25 mile boundary circle so we just keep checking and once we moved a second time, Scott decided to move the boat.

I was on the helm and we had a bit of drama getting the anchor off the bottom but overall, it was a calm situation other than yelling over the wind gusts.

This was the first time I was in phone contact and was able to capture the story and pictures onto facebook and now my blog. Modern technology, what would we do without it?

Got a few more pictures in the gallery. My job was to monitor the chart plotter so I took pictures as well.

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Vessel Name: Celestial
Vessel Make/Model: Tripp 47
Hailing Port: Mere Point, Maine
Crew: Scott and Donna Hansen
About: On our first boat in 1977 Scott said, "One day I'd like to sail around the world." We did that from 1988 to 1996 on a J-36. Now we own our 4th boat, a Tripp 47 'Celestial' that we are retiring on.
Extra:
We sailed from Maine in 2009 to Panama, up to Seattle, back down to Mexico and over to Hawaii in 2012. 2013 we went to NZ, Aust. and the South Pacific returning to Hawaii in 2015. In 2016 we sailed to Alaska and back to the Northwest. We kept our boat in Portland until April 2018 when Scott and [...]
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