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 🥲

Day 2 of our passage to the southern islands of Japan! So far so good. We’re all really tired today but spirits are still high. The water is starting to get deeeeep 🤯

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 ✌️✌️

We’re hauling out La Vagabonde soon to kick off the repairs.. but for now, we’re making the most of our time in Japan 🇯🇵 with Riley’s dad and step mum! Tokyo Disneyland exceeded all expectations (it was seriously awesome?!! Darwin still doesn’t know how to feel about the rides clearly hahahaha), and tomorrow… we’ll finally hit the slopes for some snowboarding🏂

At 2am as we were sleeping, a fishing vessel ran into us.. head on. The noise was so loud, and the impact sent glasses smashing and clothes flying out of cupboards. It shook us up in more ways than one 😢💔💔. Thankfully, no one was injured. Not the video we wanted to make, but Friday 5pm EST you can watch the full story on YouTube. Thanks for all of your love and support recently guys!! Really does feel like we have one giant family out there x

We were headed out of the Seto Inland sea, when it happened. The days leading up to the crash were so spooky. We’re SO glad Ellie wasn’t sleeping in the area, when the fishing vessel hit us. The thought sends a shiver up my spine. I’ve been thinking a lot about intuition.. and how torn I am when it comes to trusting it. With Riley being such a science driven guy, I often find myself leaning into logic and evidence over gut feelings. But then, something like this happens, and it leaves me questioning EVERYTHING. Is there another layer to life that we can’t yet measure? Can messages truly be sent to us in ways we don’t fully understand? In this case, I can’t help but feel that little voice.. the one I dismissed.. was literally warning me about what was about to happen. It was! The second the fishing boat collided with us, the first thing I said in my head was “I knew it”. That honestly scared me more than the crash itself. It makes me really wonder.. how often do we overlook these whispers of intuition, writing them off as coincidence or overthinking? What do you think? Is intuition just another piece of the puzzle we don’t fully understand yet? ✨ Or is it just our subconscious piecing things together… and every now and then, a wild coincidence lines up so perfectly that it feels like something more?

Tried to get a cute family pic but failed lol. Lovely day on the water x

Made it to Tokyo!! What a beautiful city.. Having a SeaPeople meetup tonight, if you’re in Tokyo check the hail for more details 🇯🇵⚡️

The Naruto Strait was nuts. Right up on the list of worlds most strongest currents 🤪

Happy to be here, but would also love to be at the Annapolis Boat Show right now. For all of you going, don’t forget to join the SeaPeople Documentary premiere on Sunday, 5:30pm! In the YB Seminar Tent. First in first served. And then you’ll be join us after for a live Q&A session!! We can’t wait to see you there 🩵 (other founders in person, us on zoom) Big, exciting week ahead for SeaPeople you guyyyyyys. Thank you for being here for the very start of it x