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Land Ho! Hiva Oa, Marquesas, French Polynesia

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:May 10, 2013
  • Post category:2013/French Polynesia/Normand/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

 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…

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Day 21 Ready for Landfall and Breaking up the Monotony

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:May 8, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Normand/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

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…

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Deep Clean and Rocky Haircuts

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:May 7, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Normand/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

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…

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20 Stinky Fish

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:May 6, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Normand/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

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…

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Dolphins welcome us across the equator

  • Post author:Kirsten
  • Post published:May 6, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Kirsten/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

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…

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Monsoon Winds

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:April 29, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Jaeden/Normand/Sailing/Schafer South Pacific Sailing

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…

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A Soppy Mess

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:April 27, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Sailing/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/Uncategorized

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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Fishing Baby Wipes

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:April 25, 2013
  • Post category:Eli/Jaeden/Normand/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/Uncategorized

Eli finished building his Star Wars Lego starship that he started working on yesterday. He did such an incredible job with it that Jaeden could not resist picking it up and…

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Living the Dream

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:April 23, 2013
  • Post category:Dailin/Eli/Jaeden/Normand/Sailing/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/Uncategorized/Zakary

Well we haven't moved much by wind power in the past few days but I guess I shouldn't complain as the weather has been beautiful. Blue skies every day. Apart…

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100 Ways to Entertain

  • Post author:Alyssa Schafer
  • Post published:April 23, 2013
  • Post category:Alyssa/Normand/Sailing/Schafer South Pacific Sailing

One thing that I have learned very well this last week is how many activities one can do in such a confined area. Our boat seems even smaller when contrasting…

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