Ross 20 March 2010 | Pacific Ocean Since the wind died down and we were motoring with small waves at our back and it was Friday night, we decided to get crazy and have a pizza party. It took us awhile and we had to take a second try with the sauce, but in the[…]
Ross 21 March 2010 | Pacific Ocean We’re currently in an area called the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) also known as the duldrums. It’s an area of the ocean along the equator where there is typically little to no wind. Prior to motors, ships that sailed into the ITCZ could sit for weeks waiting[…]
Ross 22 March 2010 | Pacific Ocean We’re still in the duldrums and spent the majority of the past 24 hours motoring with the swell and a bit of wind on our nose. With all the motoring, it was time to try to refill the tanks not an easy task while at sea. The diesel[…]
Ross 15 April 2010 | Pacific Ocean I sat up this morning and rubbed my eyes to get ready to climb out into the cockpit. I reached for the water jug right next to my feet and was a bit surprised when I saw a big flying fish lying next to it. Most mornings, we[…]
Ross 24 March 2010 | Pacific Ocean 6 days and 22 hours after leaving Panama City, I walked up to the bow to take a rest and spotted the tips of the volcanic islands of the Galapagos Islands. We all screamed out our best and deepest ‘Land Ho’ and threw around the required high fives[…]
Ross 29 March 2010 | Galapagos Islands We’ve been really caught up in everything that´s going on in the Galapagos to update the blog. We arrived on the island of San Cristobal and have been in and out of the water checking everything out. We’ve seen sea lions, sharks, dolphins, sea turtles, birds, rays, lizards, marine iguanas, etc., but[…]