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Banana Cannons and Rainbows

  • Post author:Kirsten
  • Post published:July 30, 2013
  • Post category:Kirsten/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

We are back out at sea. We have been traveling from French Polynesia to Tonga. Day in and day out we ride these endless waves up and down in and…

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Scrambled Pizza Buns on the High Seas

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:July 28, 2013
  • Post category:Normand/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

Cooking on the ocean is not always a simple task. True, I'm rarely, if ever, the one to enter the galley to make a superb meal but based on second…

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Rogue Wave into the Boat

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:July 27, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Normand/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

The water had been rough today. We've been rocking and rolling. The winds are ranging from 17 to 22 knots with short drops and gusts from 12 to 28 knots.…

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Setting Sail

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:July 27, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Normand/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

Eli decked out in the many collections from French Polynesia while Jaeden and Dailin hang one of the 6 strands of Bananas that were given to us by various friends.…

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Friday’s my Lucky Day

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:July 26, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Normand/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

It has been an incredible week of patience. Last week the entire week's forecast was for heavy 30 knot winds and it was more than true to its predictions. We…

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Curse of the Forbidden Bloom

  • Post author:Alyssa Schafer
  • Post published:July 24, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Alyssa/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips

Something that must be known about curses, magic and superstition, is that the more one believes in such things, the more powerful and real they become. Ancient beings that at…

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4×4 Adventure in Raiatea

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:July 23, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Normand/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

Our friends who brought us around half of the island yesterday picked us up for an afternoon drive again today. This time however we had the opportunity to go four…

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An Octopus at the Gas Station

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:July 21, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Normand/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

 It took us 20 minutes to carefully fuel up. The tricky part was filling the port gas tank. Since we only had one engine, we decided that we would run…

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The Ghost Boat of Raiatea

  • Post author:Alyssa Schafer
  • Post published:July 16, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Alyssa/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/South Pacific

The black ripples reflected yellow rivulets of moonbeam from the half crescent above. The clear night sky displayed the sort of moon that would automatically bring to mind a ghost…

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Getting Ready for another big crossing

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:July 15, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Normand/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

Today was the day we have been putting off for a little while now. With so many small repairs to be done, we knew it was going to be a…

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