We’re about to see other humans for the first time in 21 days! Hello Palau!

Very squally but loving the change in weather.. feeling all the hygge vibes ✨

We were en route to Palau, but some engine issues have led us to seek shelter in the calm of an atoll. Not exactly part of the plan but we’re definitely not complaining 🏝️

We actually were pumping this trip and Elayna got us going over 20knots at one point. Very fun and exciting sail with a quick stop in Rota which was unbelievable!!! What a magical place.

What a fun sail. Days like this make me so grateful Riley steered us toward performance sailing. I love my boat!! 🩵

Left one of the more beautiful anchorages we’ve seen in a while. It was blowing 18 then 16 then 14 on a beam swinging aft made for a sporting morning and a relaxing afternoon. Leaving early and arriving 60nm away shortly after midday is one of the reasons I love this vessel. Morale onboard is just excellent despite the challenges with living aboard on top of kids and some seriously anchoring unfriendly islands. Love my life 🫶🌋🌏

After a miscommunication about a potential meeting with the mayor of the island and sailing our OC tender in the beautiful blue inland lake we decided to head to Saipan basically because we had run out of food. Not the main staples but a bunch of things to make like easier with the kids. When we arrived we forgot to bring our phones and wallets to shore which is always a good indicator that we’re back in “Crusing Mode” again. Lenny spent a lot of time at the helm and it was a very smooth sail.

Cannot wait to get some sleep so we can truly appreciate this natural beauty!!

Another 400NM + down 🩵. Pulling into Maug tomorrow morning.. it’s an island made up of the remnants of a submerged volcanic caldera!! Can’t wait to see it. It’s been a rough few days at sea, very strange weather. Flew the drone in the rough weather and West’s hand copped it when catching it 😭

This place is unreal.. whales, massive wahoo, and breathtaking landscapes everywhere we turn 🥲

La Vagabonde and her crew just nailed our first big passage of the season.. couldn’t be happier! Off to hunt down some sake in this picture perfect little town to celebrate 💃🍶🥳 max speed was 20.4 knots btw!

Four seasons in one day.. gusty and squally, but spirits were high! One last stop in Osaka before we sail away from the mainland and into the open sea 🌊

First sail of the season.. here we go! 🥲 We’re setting off to pick up our four new crew members before heading further offshore toward Micronesia. It’s been a smooth start, though we’ve been beating upwind all day but we’re NOT COMPLAINING lol so happy to be here ✌️✌️

Kai is often quite funny. Niche humour.

Snowing on our boat! This has never happened before. The past two months doing boat work and far more insidious - boat work logistics has been hard work. Massive thanks to everyone who’s helped out. A pretty magical moment for the boys and Elayna but perhaps especially me today. 🥲 Incredible.

We are out of the water and have commenced work on the fwd beam area. The damage we can confirm now was all superficial as we suspected. The fairing piece has been cut away as you can see and no damage to where beam enters either main hull or float. Everyone is very happy but there is still much work to do. The fairing has arrived from Rapido and one of their contractors will arrive soon for installation.

Some much needed time off the boat. There will be a video coming out on the 21st explaining everything that happened. Working on that at the moment. Looking through here at everyone’s adventures is so beautiful.

It’s very rare I sit on my ass whilst my own boat makes it way through the water. This has happened… I honestly can’t remember when. I LOVE people who are good at their jobs. Kai is good at his job. Massive shout out to this guy, one of the best sailors I’ve ever met and just a pleasure to be around. He’s a good influence on the boat in general and also the kids who just think he’s so awesome as well. It’s been good switching off the brain and doing laptop work today. I got so much done! A lot of it for this app we’re in right here 🤓 Have an awesome day everyone.

Trying to use a 9 knot current to get our max boat speed so far, for the clicks brah for the clicks, and we may have been pushing a little hard. There were whirlpools that some onboard were genuinely worried would swallow us whole and a crunching upwind 1st to 2nd reef situation that required some patience and not a small amount of skill to get out of. We were hesitant to put in the second because we were so close to the downwind section of the trip but true wind kept climbing and climbing until we had no choice. So ofcourse right when it’s peaking to 30 I’m swinging off a line to set the reef hook. When it’s blowing 30 it’s hard to pull down a main and ours is quite large. Will look at rigging a downfu$&er for sure. There was adrenaline and a lot of people gathered by the helm/port windows at different points just watching the maelstrom the ocean poured forth today. Darwin slept the entire time. Lenny followed the vibe onboard and was just stoked really. Incredible day onboard for all.