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Voyager of oceans, exploder of sails, holder of breath. untethered both literally and figuratively.

North Pacific Ocean, Guam, USA • Apr 19, 2025

Distance

40.4nm

Avg. speed

11.5kts

Duration

3h 30m

Elay got the top speed 😉

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

Sasanhaya Bay, Rota, Northern Mariana Islands • Apr 17, 2025

Distance

62.5nm

Avg. speed

9.6kts

Duration

6h 31m

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 🫶🌋🌏

Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands • Apr 10, 2025

Distance

174.5nm

Avg. speed

6.6kts

Duration

1d 2h 32m

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.

Philippine Sea, Northern Islands, Northern Mariana Islands • Mar 31, 2025

Distance

110.2nm

Avg. speed

6.9kts

Duration

15h 57m

Upwind battle 🤪

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

North Pacific Ocean • Mar 31, 2025

Distance

417.2nm

Avg. speed

7.7kts

Duration

2d 6h 16m

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 😭

Ogasawara National Park, Tokyo, Japan • Mar 27, 2025

Distance

15.9nm

Avg. speed

2.9kts

Duration

5h 26m

Galapagos of the orient

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

Philippine Sea • Mar 23, 2025

Distance

523.5nm

Avg. speed

7.3kts

Duration

3d 4m

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!

Honshu, Hyogo, Japan • Mar 18, 2025

Distance

99.1nm

Avg. speed

8.8kts

Duration

11h 19m

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 🌊

Setonaikai National Park, Hiroshima, Japan • Mar 14, 2025

Distance

59.3nm

Avg. speed

6.2kts

Duration

9h 34m

And we’re off!

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 ✌️✌️

Honshu, Myoko, Niigata, Japan • Feb 24, 2025

Kai is often quite funny. Niche humour.

Hiroshima, Japan • Feb 7, 2025

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.

Hope Town, The Bahamas • Jan 21, 2025

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.

Hope Town, The Bahamas • Nov 14, 2024

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.

Japan • Oct 21, 2024

Distance

55.6nm

Avg. speed

7kts

Duration

7h 56m

Today I did nothing.

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.

Japan • Oct 20, 2024

Distance

67.1nm

Avg. speed

1.2kts

Duration

2d 8h 28m

The gust to 30 caught us off guard.

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.

Japan • Oct 17, 2024

Distance

40.3nm

Avg. speed

7kts

Duration

5h 48m

Not me tacking up a shipping lane

Arose early with renewed vigour, somewhat of a pep in our collective step, and decided to head off before breakfast and before even coffee. With the current behind us our tacking angles were looking more like 70 degree gybes but I assure you the AWA was sub 30. Looking at the tracks made me personally nautically aroused as did the tall ship we took to starboard before, as happens far too often I’ve found whilst sailing, being unable to moor at our pre organised moorage. We radioed in and enquired if we could anchor at the anchorage seems as though we couldn’t moor at the moorage. Unfortunately that also was a no so we sailed south for 3 miles to a dock we heard we could dock at. This turned out to be ok and now we’re having lunch.

Japan • Oct 16, 2024

Distance

82.3nm

Avg. speed

1.4kts

Duration

2d 9h 59m

Welcome to Deep Utopia my children.

Well we’ve been launching this app and been kinda busy so I forgot to hit post on the last trip. Welcome everyone! 🙌🏼 Soo happy to have you all here 🥹

Japan • Oct 3, 2024

Distance

124.3nm

Avg. speed

4.1kts

Duration

1d 6h 15m

Japan Inland Sea

For months our goal has been to get to the “relative” safety of the Japanese Inland Sea (Seto). There’s still Typhoons everywhere but at least the Cold Fronts are keeping them at bay now. We filmed a lot of videos to promote this app. I really love Sea People, I hope it’s useful for sailors and water people everywhere. We’ve busting our ass day in and day out sailing, filming and exploring for the last couple of months. Importantly we actually had a fricking ball pulling it all together as well. Heading through Typhoon Alley in the middle of Typhoon season was wild. Not something to be taken on lightly. Special thanks to the incredible crew we have onboard, Ellie, Kai and Carine.

Japan • Oct 3, 2024

Distance

36nm

Avg. speed

7.8kts

Duration

4h 36m

Iki to Fukuoka.

Japan • Sep 26, 2024

Distance

46.5nm

Avg. speed

8.2kts

Duration

5h 41m

I’ve never seen so many fish from the boat. Even when the sea was rough there were so many Dorado chasing flying fish. They followed the boat for half the trip. All hard upwind today 12-18 with patches of 0-4 on the leeward side especially early on. Full main and Genoa with 1.5kw of power coming in from the oceanvolt most of the day.

Japan • Sep 12, 2024

Distance

50.6nm

Avg. speed

9.9kts

Duration

5h 7m

Heading Nth again to run away from these Fytoons. 23 knots for a bit of the trip, such a fun sail. Still trying to figure out if this boat is for an amateur or not…???

Japan • Sep 8, 2024

Distance

75.3nm

Avg. speed

7.8kts

Duration

9h 40m

75 in 9 hours ain’t bad.

The motoring to pulling and dropping anchor is really f$)&ing with my avg speed. But I’m like should I maximise for that or nm travelled…??? I think nm travelled will be the most important in the long run. This will be my logbook for sure and how I will boast when I’m a grandpa. Most recent trip. 15.7 knots with Elayna on the helm was the top speed of the day. All the “good” (professional) footage is on the big camera which we keep for YT so these are all just fun pics i take on the way.

Japan • Sep 5, 2024

Distance

81.4nm

Avg. speed

8.5kts

Duration

9h 32m

I think Kagoshima means Island

We sailed from Kagoshima, past Kagoshima and found a nice small fishing port to tie off to on the tiny island of Kagoshima. 80+ nm in a single day without setting an alarm to wake up is becoming normal which is ridiculous. Then we hitched a ride to the local Onsen with a gentleman named Rick who said we could stay as long as we like.

Japan • Sep 4, 2024

Our Hurricane Hole. The only one for 350 miles.

New Kalalake, Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Zambales, Philippines • Jul 3, 2024

Distance

233.3nm

Avg. speed

0.9kts

Duration

10d 21h 39m

Moved the boat to Subic Bay where we will be getting some work done for the next month before heading towards Japan. Really excited for that trip and everything it will bring to us. On this one both alternators stopped working, I jammed the windlass and needed to repair whilst drifting into the anchorage and had 28tws with full sail up blasting downwind which is not recommended but was really really fun single handed as the sun was setting before rounding an island to anchor in the leeward in something that didn’t resemble an anchorage before heading off again the next day.

Philippines • Jun 2, 2024

Distance

174.2nm

Avg. speed

0.8kts

Duration

8d 22h 7m

The last 9 days.

I saw this collecting my miles after the first couple of days and decided to leave it for a week or so. A lot happens on the water sailing in that time. I’ve had a couple of mates on board and we’ve been having a ball. 🤙

Busuanga, Palawan, Philippines • May 20, 2024

Distance

11.3nm

Avg. speed

4.5kts

Duration

2h 29m

Showing a couple of spritely young fellows the ropes onboard was quite fun!

Coron, Palawan, Philippines • May 9, 2024

Distance

18.1nm

Avg. speed

2.4kts

Duration

7h 25m

We actually did more.

I’ve somehow left my phone tracking which is great because each time I log onto Sea People I’ve a new track to post. It’s brilliant. We actually did a bit more than this today but it’s keeping a pretty good log especially since I forgot to push track today. Got the new staysail up, rigged, furled and then out again. Good to have that up our sleeve.

Culion, Palawan, Philippines • May 7, 2024

Distance

27.2nm

Avg. speed

7.3kts

Duration

3h 45m

New skill unlocked.

TL:DR we used just the main for the first 2/3rds of the trip. It went well. Left with 1 reef in the main. It was a bit uncomfortable onboard beating into short period waves and we didn’t want to go any faster. The jib would have overpowered us and I hadn’t set up the staysail yet so after a bit of head scratching I just said “why don’t we just leave it like this…???” Couldn’t point as high but we were doing 7-9 until the sea state settled and we unfurled the Genoa. The helm felt weird - like it was difficult to pull to leeward at times which was good to learn and see how it responded under those conditions.

Linapacan, Palawan, Philippines • May 6, 2024

Distance

21.2nm

Avg. speed

6.1kts

Duration

3h 27m

Linapacan soirée

Everything done by midday. Full sail, full water, full power. Oceanvolt is doing really well now. Need to tighten up the shrouds though. They’re wobbling around like spaghetti.🍝

Philippines • May 4, 2024

Distance

103.4nm

Avg. speed

0.4kts

Duration

11d 23h 7m

Philippines • Apr 22, 2024

Distance

38nm

Avg. speed

8.7kts

Duration

4h 21m

Arriving in Paradise

Again a really nice sail. Beating into it for the first couple of hours in 20 knots with a couple of reefs in the main. Then in the afternoon a downwind run as we rounded the top of Palawan threading the needle between some outlying reefs on an island nearby the northern most point. Gusts to 20 (suspicious of my instruments) and some nice speeds overall. Very happy with the sail but most of all stoked for Elayna who is really getting the hang of reefing, helming etc. 🥲 What a legend.

Taytay, Palawan, Philippines • Apr 18, 2024

Distance

29.6nm

Avg. speed

7.4kts

Duration

3h 59m

Beam reach around.

Big day for everyone and the first really clear water we’ve seen in a long time. We dodged a squall with full main again which was fun, bombed up a reefs edge at 10 knots in the rain at like 20 AWA in the flattest water. Oh. And we dodged some pearl farms as well. 🤙

Dumaran, Palawan, Philippines • Apr 17, 2024

Distance

51.4nm

Avg. speed

7.5kts

Duration

6h 50m

Upwind rip for power

So good to have .8-1.5 kw coming in for most of the day. Made some water. Life is good.

Philippines • Apr 8, 2024

Distance

26.2nm

Avg. speed

7.7kts

Duration

3h 25m

Track looks a bit wonky 🥴

Threw in a reef pretty much solo for fun to see if I could get it done and how I would get it done. Need to make sure the halyards height is lower before I jump in the bag. And I know what you’re thinking. Jump in the bag? Yes jump in the bag. What the sail bag? Yeah, for a reef. You’re jumping in the sail bag to take a reef? Yeah. It seems to be the fastest best way to get the reef hooks in. Sounds kinda funky Well I’m a funky kinda guy.

Philippines • Apr 8, 2024

Distance

14.7nm

Avg. speed

8kts

Duration

1h 50m

Relocating for supplies

Had to motor to make power which means I need to make some adjustments onboard. The excuse I needed to not shower the kids.

Philippines • Apr 8, 2024

Distance

14.6nm

Avg. speed

8.1kts

Duration

1h 49m

Relocating for supplies

8 knots with the headsail. Need more solar or to use less power onboard I don’t like motoring to make power.

Philippines • Mar 30, 2024

Distance

31.4nm

Avg. speed

6.5kts

Duration

4h 48m

Philippines • Mar 26, 2024

Distance

102nm

Avg. speed

7.3kts

Duration

14h

Motored for 5 hours until the batteries were full. They accept quite a lot of juice. Sorry for rambling post I’m tired and frazzled after big day. Did last half of the day at wind speed TWA 80-95 considering we only had the main and jib up, none of the big gear like code 0 or gennaker we were really happy. Lots of 9’s. The hydrogenerator really cranks at 10+ knots putting in over a Kilowatt often 1.3+ Lenny tied his first bowline by himself. Also we need pirate nicknames! because we’re in pirate territory and a bit freaked out to be honest. Some fishing boat must have stepped on his mayday button and it went off at us every 20seconds for an hour and a half. Elayna is the Butcher of South Sulu Darwin is ninja cheeter

Malaysia • Mar 25, 2024

Ok. Do we think I need to sand this back and bog it right now? Or can I wait a week? The weather gods have aligned and I’d really rather just close my eyes and deal with this after the 200nm to a better port with supplies. Will there be water ingress if I wait? What do we think?

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