Articles tagged with 'fishing'

Wow, it's so hard to believe we've completed another South Pacific season. In many ways, our third tour of this magnificent part of the world was our most difficult, but also one of the most beautiful. Surprise crew changes, mechanical issues, and weather, topped the list of challenges. While Fiji's amazing beauty, both above and beneath the sea, helped us all to heal, regroup, and...

It's cold. Wind buffets from all sides and the floor shifts with the jerking motion of a moving train. I zip my jacket up to my chin. It's loud too and smokey, as there are no windows, just large long slots that begin at waist height, oh, and no seats either inside this rolling open-air steel box they call the observation car. But mostly, at this moment, what I'm observing are the...

We had to pass through 'Man of War Passage', a narrow (30m gap, the narrowest we've ever gone through!) with 14m of depth to get into this bay but it was worth it. You do have to plan to do this in slack tide and with little wind to make sure you can get through easily.

We entered here after a full day of sailing in the rain down the coast of the North Island from Bay of Islands toward Auckland. The seas were moderate and we had 20 kts of wind right on the stern so we had just the genoa sail up along with some motor. After a wet and cold day, entering this quiet refuge was a welcome event and we've enjoyed a peaceful night's rest here. It's an...

In sailing, an upwind journey into heavy seas is known as "a beat", mostly because that's how you're going to feel at the end of it: beaten, thoroughly exhausted, irritable, perhaps a bit woozy. Even if you're an experienced seaman this is to be expected, it's part of the game. We departed Nuku Hiva sailing into twenty-five knots of wind for the first time since departing Palma de...

After our Panama Canal Transit, we anchored off Panama City for a few days to do some last minute provisioning for fresh fruits and vegetables. We’d also been waiting for a good place to update our fishing gear and luckily found everything we needed to allow us to catch fish all the way across the Pacific.

Our summer sailing season started later in June after the crew had a well-deserved rest from our participation in the Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta in Porto Cervo, Sardegna. As our crew are all from Italy, naturally they wanted to show off their country to us and we were excited to see it through their eyes.

Last night the stars, and this morning the sun rose over a silky flat sea. Simone said that when he was on watch at two this morning a pod of dolphins arrived, they were glowing he said, torpedoes of iridescent green darting and dashing. We're currently making our way across from Sardinia to the small island of Ponza, but not without one last fish tale to tell.