It’s been a great stay but it’s time to head to American Samoa and prepare for the holidays. The locals have been wonderful. It looks like we have a good weather window: safe, perhaps with a bit of a light spot 2/3 of the way there. We expect about 5-6 days. Castoff, soon (paperwork completed). Continue reading

Arriving in the Cook Islands wasn’t a coincidence. Two extremely long- term friends are representing Hawaii in an international paddling competition. We (Ann and I, Redemption, shoutout to Hank Hinkley for building an awesome cross-Pacific ride in a classic East Coast yacht style, hull #1 in fact!) are having a great time and couldn’t resist… Continue reading

I needed a favicon for the site. I thought for a few seconds and produced this: Why? Because sometimes your day has a light sky and deep blue sea… and sometimes you have a brilliant sapphire sea and darker blue sky: Into every life a few blues must come. If we’re really lucky, we get… Continue reading

I’d been inadequately keeping up with the trip through the South Seas on a marine blog service, but they’re closing up shop in December. I had to post something to activate here, and this beats lorem ipsum. This site will be a sailing and personal blog for Nathan Bossett. Continue reading