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Halo Vanuatu

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(Fiji to Vanuatu S 19° 00.184 E 172° 16.178) A sneeze is an event. That’s how I know…

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For better, not worse; for richer and poorer; loved and cherished — we’re back. In just three days,…

Tears for Tears

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Wing foiling is fun. That’s right—capturing the wind with a hand-held sail while balancing on a gyroscoping board…

A Favorite

June 8, 2026

Dear People of Vulaga, Thank you. In over forty thousand nautical miles of sailing, there are very few…

A Word on Friendship

May 27, 2026

There are no friends like old friends— They are the guardians of "no time has passed." Likewise, there…

Bula Bula Fiji

May 26, 2026

I dare say it’s been too long since I’ve written a blog post, but there’s no time like…

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 -

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 -

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 -

Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

- Jim Henson -

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 -

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

- Groucho Marx -

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

- Albert Einstein -