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21 Days at Sea!

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Koaha nui dear family and friends, We arrived in Hiva Oa over three weeks ago and are just now updating our blog. As far as long passages go, we enjoyed a good one. Thank you to our families for all your encouragement (especially my mom for watching Uma). We looked forward to and cherished reading the letters from home at different milestones. Thank you to SV Griffin for providing weather support from land and mentoring us in all things French Polynesia. Thank you to SV Lucky Dog for helping us settle in. To read the day-by-day notes from our crossing, please click here . Note that we canceled our Predictwind tracker a week ago in Fatu Hiva, as we've chosen to use our Garmin Inreach as our primary tracker in French Polynesia. We had planned to copy the crossing notes here, but the formatting proved too timely, and for lack of a better excuse, we chose to spend this time enjoying ourselves in these spectacular islands instead.   Marquesas is unquestionably paradise, and we're e
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On our way to French Polynesia! (Retroactive Post)

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Hello all! We were so busy with our departure list, we forgot to mention here we actually left to cross the Pacific.  We left the evening of March 17th and have had an excellent first few days. Feel free to follow along under the "Where are we now?" tab in the main menu, above. We add daily posts to our Predictwind tracker. Love, Denise and Dave ❤️
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Mainland Mexico!

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El Faro, Mazatlán Hello dear friends and family, We’re currently in La Cruz de Huanacaxtle, one of our new favorite towns, situated on the northern shore of Bahía de Banderas. We’ve quietly settled into life here as we await our big voyage next month: the passage across the Pacific Ocean. Oh boy, it feels good to say those words! We’re feeling all the emotions: excited, prepared, unprepared, confident, scared, focused, foggy, feverish, chilled, raspy…oh yeah, we came down with bronchitis too. Bad timing.  Since I’m bored in bed, you get a long blog post this time! In the last two months, we’ve explored new towns, fell in love with Isla Isabel, attended ocean faring seminars, visited my family in Washington, and enjoyed visits from Dave’s family here in La Cruz. Dave and his dad enjoyed a couple weeks together exploring the coastline from Bahía de Banderas to Playa Tenacatita and back. And in true sailing fashion, we let our to-do list get way too long. The boat work treadmill never sto
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