We made landfall in the Marquesas after 22 days at sea. The rest of our time out there was pretty uneventful; the wind died down to 5 knots there for a while, and being so close it was quite frustrating to slow down so much, but hey, that’s sailing. A 22 day passage from the Galapagos is neither fast nor slow, so we cannot complain.  Making landfall after so much time on the water is personally one of the things I was looking forward to the most on this trip. Nowadays, a trav

If all goes well and according to plan, this should be the longest leg of the entire trip! The passages across the Indian ocean and the Atlantic fall somewhere in the 2000 nm range, so were hoping they will be easy after this one (famous last words). So far, everything has been great; we are currently 14 days into the trip, and we still have 1150 nm to go. The first couple of days fresh out of Puerto Ayora, the wind was barely blowing and we ended up motoring for a couple day

Back again with another update on the Galapagos! In the last post I mentioned some of the wildlife and how abundant it was, and in this video you can see even more! More fish, more sharks, more sea lions, and these Galapagos Sea Lions are incredibly playful; I spent hours in the water playing with them. The pups got to the point that they were taking sticks out of my hand to swim around with. Even with all the things to see on land and the water, we still spent a great deal o