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The Gambier Archipelago: Part 4

March 17, 2025

Chapter 12: Foiling & Fixing I swore I would never do it. It was too dangerous, and I…

The Gambier Archipelago: Part 3

March 17, 2025

Chapter 8: 34,000 Steps To truly experience Mangareva, you have to walk its gravelly, cracked streets. We walked…

The Gambier Archipelago: Part 2

March 17, 2025

Chapter 4: Day and Night The air is still. I hear water lapping against the hull, roosters crowing,…

The Gambier Archipelago: Part 1

March 17, 2025

Au revoir, Gambier! If it weren’t for the rainbow shooting out my toe, I would feel glum watching…

Māuruuru (Thank you)

January 8, 2025

Ships log - January 08, 2025 - : Jill’s watch. S 20°04.1 W138°25.1, Spinnaker and Main with preventer…

A New Year

January 7, 2025

Ships log 01-07-2025 08:00. We went through the Hao pass at 06:30 with 2 knots of incoming current…

A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.

- Albert Einstein -

I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.

- Paulo Coelho -

Everything will be alright in the end … If it’s not alright, then it’s not yet the end.

- Sonny Kapoor -

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”

- Hunter S. Thompson -

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

- Groucho Marx -

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain -