FINALLY our new website is ready for public eyes. www.sailpacifica.com Some of you may know that Dave and I have been planning to do some charters on our catamaran. Our website not only has all the info about the boat, our schedule, how/what/when to come sailing with us, but it is also the home of our new combined blog. Many of you like to have the email notifications when I update the blog. Unfortunately I'm not able to register you on the new one, you will need to do that yourselves. Just go to www.sailpacifica.com and click on the Subscribe link [View Full Entry]

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Yes Dave and I are engaged. Dave proposed while we where in Annapolis and well I said, yes. Quite a shock, I was completely surprised. This is what he needed to prepare for my birthday. He kept asking me what I wanted and I really didn't want much (there is only so much room on the boat). I wanted to go to starbucks, have a coffee, read the paper and I wanted to take a shore shower (i.e. lots of hot running water). Well instead I got a big diamond ring! I did get the shower too:)) We've been pretty busy [View Full Entry]

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I've been really really bad about keeping up with the blog, sorry about that for all those who like to read about what's going on. I'm going to make an effort to keep up a little better, plus once I get our website up and running all blog stuff and our location will be updated there in one place regularly. Well it's not all fun and games, sometimes there is work to do. After spending a wonderful few weeks in Annapolis (the sailing capital of the world, or at least the U.S.) we hauled the boat out in Baltimore. We did [View Full Entry]

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We hung around in New York for a few weeks, getting the boat together. Dave installed a nice little furnace so we've been able to survive. We headed out early one morning from Long Island through New York Harbor. That was such a great trip. Sailing down the east river (luckily no ice chunks in our way) and making it through the infamous hells gate (a very narrow crowded bend in the river notorious for very swift tides). Sailing past all the high rises and around the Statue of Liberty was a chance of a life time. We heading offshore and [View Full Entry]

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Last I wrote we were off to the Caribbean and we are now in New York, not quite as lush and tropical. Let me give you the brief rundown of the events from the past month. We flew to St. Martin to buy a particular boat from the owner. We offered to give a deposit, but he said no, just come over. In less than 2 days we were there and just loved the boat....After we looked around for an hour or so the guys tells us that he just accepted a deposit from someone else. We were pretty mad, since [View Full Entry]

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After we sold the boat, we hightailed it out of Australia. We could get super cheap last minute tickets so we took advantage of that. Unfortunately we had to fly through Taipei. Dave and I got a mild food sickness. We think it was from eating at one of the food stalls. We noticed as we walked up that they were taking food off of used plates and putting them back in with the cooking food. Dave was very put off but I'm like hey 'when in Rome'. Well probably not a good idea 'when in Taiwan'. We had a 2 [View Full Entry]

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Well lots of changes going on over here! Dave and I have been brainstorming, thinking, planning, researching and thinking again on how we can keep this dream alive. So our conclusion is to sell La Vie, buy a nice catamaran and do some charters in the Caribbean for a few years to keep the bank account topped off. Charter/Cruising season in the Caribbean doesn't start until October/November so we have some time to get the boat, get it up to snuff and get familiar with the cruising grounds. We are still working on our business plans and putting up a website [View Full Entry]

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Merry Christmas to my loyal followers. Dave and I are back in the good old USA for the holidays. We been running ourselves ragged visiting some friends and family and liquidating assets. We plan to keep sailing for a few more years. I've been paying over $2500/year in storage which is ridiculous and If I keep it in there a few more years, I could just buy all new stuff! From the minute I got to my parents house up in Sonoma, I had posted furniture and other high dollar items on craigslist. I can't tell you how awesome that site [View Full Entry]

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Lots of great videos, photos and stories at: www.svlavie.blogspot.com Well it’s been over 2 months since the last update and we have had a complete change of plans. Instead of going to the Solomon Islands for Cyclone season, we decided to head to Australia. We had a wonderful 7 day passage getting here (caught a white tip shark on the way!). We got here last Friday and are in the Port of Bundaberg, the rum capital of Australia. But that’s lost on us as neither one of us care much for that particular poison. After leaving Port Vila in September we [View Full Entry]

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September 3, 2007 We are just getting ready to leave Port Vila and continue our trip north to visit the rest of the Vanuatu Islands. I don’t think I will have internet access until we get to Honiara, Solomon Islands, which could be a few months. Have a happy rest of the summer. [View Full Entry]

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