Life at a Heel

Heeling, Close Hauled on a J24, New York Harbor

Amara made landfall in the Marquesas Islands on 17 March 2018 after 17 days at sea. That’s 435 hours living on a sailboat that is yawing in following seas, pitching in confused seas, rolling in swell and bouncing in surface

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Crossing the Pacific

Go big or go home, my big brother Frank says. So if I’m going to cross an ocean, it had better be big. The Pacific Ocean is the biggest and the deepest; it extends nearly 11,000 nautical miles across and covers 30%

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I am going to cross an ocean!

Pacific Ocean, here I come! I have joined Rick and Brenda aboard their sailboat Amara to cross the Pacific. We set sail for Galapagos tomorrow and should arrive Australia in early July. I hope to post updates here and on

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