Sail 7Cs

Yup, this is the right place.
This is where we are going to post our daily blogs during our sailboat passage to Hawaii from San Francisco in our 'new to us' boat "Conversations II", weather and radio permitting. You see, at sea, we can only send email over the ham radio, which isn't always that easy. Maybe the weather will get nasty and we will get busy, or a wave will come down the companionway and drown out our electrics and radios, or maybe we will get so caught up in the beauty of it all, we will just forget! But it is my commitment to do my best to stay in touch with you.

We are leaving next week around about Thursday or Friday (July 24 or 25) from San Francisco. The boat is an Oyster Lightwave 48. She is fast and comfortable with room for 10. This will be the first leg of the very long delivery home to Singapore. After our first stop at Hawaii, I'll be heading off across the Pacific sometime in September.

Let me introduce the crew for this first leg. First there is my darling partner Irena. She is the one who found the boat thanks to her legendary tenacity. She is taking time off from work with her other crew at Microsoft to sail to Hawaii. I hear the guys and gals back at the office are pretty jealous! Then there is my dear old Dad. Don, is pushing 80 and is not one to be left out of an adventure! (We promise to return him safe and sound Mom! Then there is Paul, my life long sailing buddy, and Jordon his pre-teen son. Finally, dear Al and Leona, long time friends from our formative mid life crisis years at Haven.ca, will be with us on their first ever offshore passage (though Al has shivered his way up the wild coast of west Vancouver Island with us in our last boat).

So that's the line up. You will be able to follow our daily position at http://www.pangolin.co.nz/yotreps/reporter_list.php which has a very cool 'goole-earth-like' picture of our track. Make bets on how many sea miles we sail every day. Have a lottery on when we will actually arrive in Hawaii. Read our post to learn how well we are really getting along! Bring pop corn!

Cress