Can’t Pull up the Anchor!
Have you ever wanted to go somewhere and things have just gotten in the way and prevented you from going? Well when you are on a boat there are all…
The big voyages of the schafer family.
Adventure in Paradise
After doing our laundry at a friend’s house, we dropped mom off at the boat to hang everything to dry and to watch both Zakary and Eli who needed a…
Hiva Oa – Marquesas
Atuona is the main city on Hiva Oa which is well known for being the home to the Paul Gauguin museum as well as the cemetery for Paul Gauguin and…
Land Ho! Hiva Oa, Marquesas, French Polynesia
After a very long day we finally arrived at Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands! Because we had not be turning our clocks back at all during our trip we…
Day 21 Ready for Landfall and Breaking up the Monotony
After cleaning out Eli and Orin's room yesterday we discovered a few items we forgot that we had included with our pre-sailing purchases. Among our discoveries were a variety of…
Deep Clean and Rocky Haircuts
We have been on such a good and steady course that seems to be zipping us along to the Marquesas that we have not wanted to change anything. The sails…
20 Stinky Fish
Last night as I was on watch I had the most busy flying fish evening ever. I think we must have sailed through a flying fish factory or something because…
Dolphins welcome us across the equator
As I step into the cock pit I smile at my days work flapping wildly on the clothes lines. Funny how simple things like seeing the whites all pinned up…
Monsoon Winds
April 29th was the scariest day of our journey so far. It was a day after we discovered that our water-maker was not working, half of our solar panels were…
A Soppy Mess
The turbulent waters of the past two days were not the only rough part of the day. In the afternoon I noticed some rain clouds dumping their contents on the…
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