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We spent a lovely couple of days on Huahine with our friends on Patea and Windchase. Milly the boat dog joined us for dinner. I’m excited to go to New Zealand. I remember being in Opua in 2016, and looking at the boats in the marina with Max, wondering who had crossed the Pacific, who […]

We said goodbye to Fakarava and Luca, and sailed to Tahiti. We are anchored in a bay in Papeete near the airport. It’s strange to be near a city again! We did a bit of sightseeing, and some practical shopping – boat parts. We even went to McDonalds… Sometimes that’s just what you want, or […]

We left Nuku Hiva and headed to Fakarava in the Tuamotos. According to Max, I got my dream come true as we’ve picked up an lovely young Italian guy hitchhiking his way across the Pacific. Luca sailed with us to Fakarava, stayed on board with us for a while there, and then moved onto find […]

We sailed around the island of Nuku Hiva. It was so fun! We spent time on deserted beaches, playing in the sand and sea. We went on walks through small villages. We spent hours on a beach, shelling coconuts. We bumped into another boating family with kids and went on a hike together. The kids […]

We are just loving using our legs again… We have been enjoying fresh food – tropical fruits and other Polynesian food combined with French baking! We have been exploring Taiohae, reconnected with friends, made new friends and were invited to a birthday party on the beach. Bianca Kindler

Yay, we got notification that our quarantine is over as they counted our sea time. So after 31 days we set foot on land again… First impressions It’s very relaxed here. We went to get some money from the ATM but it had no cash left. Then later at the snack bar we could only […]

Updates from the Captain’s Log So we are on our way! We set off 3 hours ago and are super excited. We are headed across the Pacific from Panama to the Marquesas. We imagine it’ll take us between 4 and 6 weeks. Day 1 We started with something that has never happened to us before. […]

Beau turned 9 yesterday. We had fun having a BBQ on the beach with an overcast full moon. Fun fact: this is a desert island where a season of Survivor has been recorded… Bianca Kindler

Getting ready to leave. Provisioning and home schooling… Bianca Kindler

We are in Shelter Bay Marina in Panama, on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal. Panama is in lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Our plan before recent events was to go through the canal and sail to New Zealand. We would spend about 6 months sailing the South Pacific on our way there, […]

Wow! What a year the last week has been. We’ve been backwards and forwards and everywhere in-between. Do we go or do we stay? As all of the destinations between here and NZ closed down due to COVID-19, the feeling of control slipped further away. This is unprecedented times for everybody. The choices that were […]

We hired a car today and went on a short road trip inland to Nine Mile, the birth and resting place (Mount Zion) of Bob Marley. Jamaica and it’s people are charming. We heard a lot of negative things about Jamaica before we came here, mainly from people who haven’t been. ‘It’s dangerous.’ ‘People are […]

In our previous lives we both worked fulltime. That was before and after we had the kids. We both did most things around the house. There was no conscious divide between the pink and blue jobs. Boat life with kids changed that. Our terrible trio are so close in age that they are like a […]

After three days on the boat and two nights of uncomfortable motoring 200M into the wind from Cayman Islands to Montego Bay, Jamaica we were ready for some serious relaxing, preferably on land. Things started to go skewed when B said, ‘shit the paddle board has gone!’ Except for really long passages, and unless the […]

Today was so much fun! We went on a dinghy ride around Grand Cayman’s North Sound to visit Stingray City and Starfish Point. First up was Stingray City. We had been looking forward to this ever since we anchored in Governor’s Creek. Up until now, it had been too windy for us to make this […]

We are really enjoying the beautiful, long stretch of beach here. It is called Seven Mile Beach, but is ¨only¨5 miles long. Well, that is enough for us! Bianca Kindler

We are still in Grand Cayman – The Cayman Islands´ main island – but we moved from Georgetown to Governors Creek. We had enough of cruise ships blaring their horns – although one ship tooted the tune of the Love Boat, which was good fun, once. Plus, there were high winds in the forecast and […]