Sailing in Fiji is an adventure. The reefs are not as well charted, or marked, as we might like and the guide books are either old or ou...

Diving daughter Namena Island (Namenalala I in Michael Calder's guide) is a marine preserve and private island. For the annual fee...

 Maia has been a cruising kid for just over two years now (well, at least of the years she can recall...). In that time she's sailed ove...

I already have learned more Figian than I learned Marquesan, Tahitian or Tongan. The reason is you can not pass a person or enter a store wi...

There are three of us closing on Savu Savu this morning (with 25 knots from astern) and between us we are down a rudder, an engine, a lower ...

We're underway to Fiji. The wind is light and slightly ahead of the beam and we're making 5.5 knots. The thing is we want to be maki...

Tonga is lovely—we can see why people enjoy cruising here and why the charter fleet is so busy. The Vava'u Group—where we are is made up...

Maia at the beach Mama whale and babe

Yesterday we crossed from today into tomorrow. Actually it may have occurred the day before. It could be that it’s been tomorrow for a fe...

We motored for 36 hours. Not motor-sailed, which is what you do when there is a little wind, but motored, which is what you do when there is...