september 1 2005 : gulf of carpentaria, australia A couple of days back we left Thursday Island and set out across the Gulf of Carpentaria. The trip across the Gulf to the Wessel Islands is about 350 miles and never gets deeper than about 200 feet. It’s a little weird … Read More
October 2004
october 1 2004 : en route to tonga Not much to report on for this passage. It’s been pretty slow going most of the time. Back in Tahiti one of our to do’s was to get the bimini support welded since one of the two main supports is almost completely … Read More
September 2004
september 2 2004 : mo’orea, society islands, french polynesia I thought after our 24 day passage across the Pacific that everything after that was going to feel like nothing. Now it seems that a one day passage completely wipes us out. We actually left two days ago with the intention … Read More
January 2004
january 3 2004 : royal island, bahamas Happy New Year! I hope everyone is still going strong on those new year’s resolutions. I didn’t make any this year, but my resolution last year was to make sure that we actually made this trip a reality in 2003. I guess I … Read More
Intro & The Start
a quick intro : It was November of 2002 and Ali and I were sitting at Lou Malnati’s, our favorite pizza place in Chicago. It’s also a bar, and as we sat there later and later into the night we started to talk about our future. We had moved to … Read More