Andrew Veritas

To Las Perlas and… back again. :-(

We just crossed the Pacific, but we didn’t really get through the Panama story before we left. Here’s the start[…]

We’ve landed in Hiva Oa! Our friends on Searcher helped us get a stern anchor set in the tight anchorage,[…]

By this time tomorrow we should be checked into French Polynesia. It’ll be weird being back on stable ground and[…]

We had a wind shift this morning and have jibed the spinnaker. This is our first starboard tack of the[…]

We heard yesterday that the boat that was “a little NW of us” is now some twelve hundred miles behind,[…]

Sometime last night we crossed over the border into the area where Garmin will sell us charts. The wider ocean[…]

Yesterday we put out the downwind pole on the genoa, which means we’ve now used every normal sail configuration on[…]

We got news yesterday that the boat we line-handled for in the Panama Canal had dismasted on their way to[…]

Light rain coming and going this morning, not enough to wash the boat well, but enough to keep us inside.[…]

We aimed for a rain shower yesterday, hoping for a rinse, but couldn’t quite catch it. At the time, wind[…]