Checking Blog for updates Hey Ya'all just checking in. I assume you have departed for the South of Africa. Hope you will be able to pick up correspondence along the way.
Is it possible to put the route on the blog? Are you guys secretly married in some alternative fashion? I was looking at the Thai pics. The maintenance and improvements were more extensive than I imagined.
Play the Blues, Bill
Tracy - you look great!! Pics looks great but how do I view the other 330+. Reading Wilbur Smith 'those in peril' about piracy and thought about you, then yesterday drove past Little Stretton so thought i'd google you and came across pics. Still living the dream.
Completed the circle - SV Marnie Hi David
Just a quick note to let you know we have completed the circumnavigation and are home in Virginia Beach but still living aboard our boat until the weekend. It has been the experience of a lifetime and I miss the tranquility and sheer beauty we've seen. It's not all over as we will keep the boat and sail six months of the year and occupy our time with horses at other times.
How is life in Wales? Have you had a busy few months traveling around the world with clients?
Write with your news sailmarnie@gmail.com if you have a moment.
Completed the circle - SV Marnie Hi David
Just a quick note to let you know we have completed the circumnavigation and are home in Virginia Beach but still living aboard our boat until the weekend. It has been the experience of a lifetime and I miss the tranquility and sheer beauty we've seen. It's not all over as we will keep the boat and sail six months of the year and occupy our time with horses at other times.
How is life in Wales? Have you had a busy few months traveling around the world with clients?
Write with your news sailmarnie@gmail.com if you have a moment.
How do we get in touch with you? Hi Wendy and Gary ... We are in the US without our boat cards and therefore don't have your contact details but good to hear your news. Please email sailmarnie@gmail.com so that we can catch up.
Tigs and Walter
Hi from Sobraon G'day Guys,
Great to hear that life is good and you are enjoying some land time. The problems in Japan have meant that we will be spending another year in S.E. Asia so we are relaxing at Marina Island Pangkor getting lots of boat jobs done as well as traveling around Asia. We probably won't leave here for another couple of months so we should be up your way when you return. We look forward to catching up over a good bottle of wine
Garry and Wendy
PLEASE FORWARD TEL. # --NOW!!!!ARFE ARE YOU GUYS FOR REAL ??? SURLY YOU HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING FOOLISH,JUST WHEN
YOU HAVING SO MUCH FUN BEING FOOTLOOSE AND FANCY FREE.IF I THOUGHT YOU GUYS WERE ABOUT TO DO SOMETHING STUPID,I WOULD HAVE FLOWN IN FOR THE PARTY,I GUESS IT'S TO LATE NOW.I ASSUME THE YARD HAS FINISHED OR WILL SHORTLY FINISH THE REDESIGN OF THE FORWARD CABIN IN WHICH EVENT YOU'RE ON YOUR WAY AGAIN
OR WILL BE SOON.JAN JOINS ME IN EXTENDING CONGRADUALTIONS AND WE BOTH LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU NO LATER THAN XMAS AND HOPEFULLY SONNER !!! BYE !!!
Walter and Tigs,
Marnie is very impressive as is your renovation work. I have enjoyed your blog as my research with corals has taken me to some of the places you have been (Savusavu Fiji, Tonga, Makassar Strait).
Living my dream. Bonne chance.....
sounds lik a bunch of phuket to me !!!! good to hear from you,sounds like you're enjoying thailand so far.It's been really cold here at the bch since the day before xmas---would you believe 8 inhes of snow on xmas day !!,it's now jan7th (happy new year and there's still little piles of snow in the parking
lots--taking this long to melt due to the cold weather.If one can beleive the media the
economy appears to be improving and the stock market is reacting accordingly.with the
exception of rental apts. the RE market hasn't is still sucking wind.sorry to hqave to report that jan had a mild heart Attack shortly after you left,she's doing fine now!LARRY
Thanks for sharing This was great to read and the photos are wonderful. I saw Walt today at the beach and we had a great time catching up. I decided to revisit your blog. What an adventure. Thanks for sharing. Take care.
love catching up with your blogg Hi Tiggs Hi Walter, good to see you having a great time and hope you enjoyed the Aussies. I'm feeling pretty good now and summer is just arround the corner, yipee!!! I've just finished a 4 week clinker course with a bloke from Wellington, I held it in the shed at the back and it was very enjoyable,we built a boat and cured some of the ills of the world as well. I've even been doing some work on my own boat which is really good.
Love to you both from Monica and me and may the breeze be always at your back.
Hi Tracy & Walter Hi tracy,
I just got back from Saigon and Hong Kong (and Kuwait, Damascus but we wont talk about those places)
Wow you are really seeing the south seas at a human pace!! I will be in Melbourne and Aukland from 13 - 22 Aug then L.A. 3 days before returning to Lux. Just bought a new apartment there with out door sauna and shower in the garden. I will be sailing with James or Laurel in the next few weeks on my Choey Lee Bermuda 30 "Pearl Dragon" in the Gulf Islands and Vancouver Island. Not as warm as you guys are enjoying, but still a break from work!! Your mention of Varnishing prompts me (and crew du jour ) t get my thumb out and do same!! My masts (varnished of course) are in the most need of attention. My mast covers handle most of it but it is the tops that are looking pretty scabby!! Love reading of your adventures and long for the day (soon) when I will be doing the same.
lots of love and fair winds
Dougie
Tigs ... there isn't a pocket there, numpty Honestly Tigs, if you need somewhere to put your girl guide survival / first aid kit you should have worn a bigger costume
Happy New Year Hope you are finding time to enjoy down under, we miss you and wish we were still sailing. Hood river snow sucks for skiing, wet and slushy.
Cheers
steve and Tracy
Tigs and Walter are Currently World Cruising
Virginia Beach, USA to Auckland, New Zealand 2008
Auckland, New Zealand to Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Manly, Australia 2009
RQYS, Manly, Moreton Bay, Australia to Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and Phuket, Thailand 2010
Boat Lagoon Marina, Phuket - Dec 2010 - Dec 2011 interior refit/paint from top of mast to bottom of keel
2012 island hopping around Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Indonesia. June - passage Bali-Durban via Reunion, Mauritius, Rodriguez
June 10 2013 - completed circumnavigation by arriving at Rudee Inlet, Virginia... full info
William Maxwell
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Hey Ya'all just checking in. I assume you have departed for the South of Africa. Hope you will be able to pick up correspondence along the way. Is it possible to put the route on the blog? Are you guys secretly married in some alternative fashion? I was looking at the Thai pics. The maintenance and improvements were more extensive than I imagined. Play the Blues, Bill