Buying a Boat
Our Biggest Priorities when Shopping for a Cruising Catamaran
Bigger or Faster? Choosing the Size of Your Cruising Catamaran
Fountaine Pajot
The Helia Versus the Helia Evolution
20,000nm Helia Review – An Update
6,000nm Helia Review
Route Planning
Cruising the Indian Ocean: Planning for 2019
Planning a Circumnavigation
Cruising the South Pacific
Highlights from 3 Months in the Caribbean
Sailing Tips & Tricks
Important Knots for Cruisers to Know by Heart
Best Sail Configurations for Downwind Sailing on a Cruising Catamaran
Sail Trim for a Cruising Catamaran
Sailing Stories
Sailing from Australia to Indonesia: Horn to Debut
Our second Pacific crossing
4,146 NM Sailing Across the Atlantic
(This post is written towards cruisers, but these ideas also apply to long-term travel or early retirement. If you aren’t cruising, you wouldn’t have the lump sum of the purchase or sale of your boat to factor in!) Cruising finances are one of the biggest topics in the forums, and is often brought up in…
We exited the Panama Canal on March 10th, 2016 and we arrived in Australia in December of 2017. That’s 21 MONTHS sailing the South Pacific! Cruising the South Pacific is amazing. When we look at the 24 countries we’ve visited on Starry Horizons, the island nations in the South Pacific clearly dominate our favorites. We’ve…
Vanuatu is one of the lesser-touristed countries in the South Pacific. We had originally planned to spend a few weeks there, but instead found ourselves only spending a few days. Thankfully, though, we decided to spend those few days on Tanna Island, doing one of Vanuatu’s most popular attractions – the Yasur Volcano. Where is…
Or…The Unofficial South Pacific FP Regatta Or…How We Ignored Bad Omens We had been hoping to leave Fiji Thursday to sail to Tanna Ialand, Vanuatu, but we opted to wait for Sandy Cheeks and Cheeky Monkey, both of whom were waiting on boat parts. CM and SC are both Fountaine Pajot catamarans, just like us,…
April 30, 2017 – Seattle, Washington This is the presentation we gave at my Grandma’s retirement community in Bellevue, WA on April 30, 2017, covering the first half of our sailing circumnavigation. We cover a lot of topics from how we got started and the basics of Starry Horizons all the way to some of…
We absolutely love cruising remote destinations. There’s a beautiful feeling about being all alone in nature. But, just because boats have sailed the oceans since the dawn of man doesn’t mean that our charts are accurate. And here’s where SAS Planet comes in. Why You Need to Use SAS Planet Last year we noticed that…
My friend Mary Grace from Let It Be posed a question a few months ago; if you had to choose between a bigger boat, or a faster boat, relative to your current boat, what would you go with? Of course, going bigger inherently gives you a bit more speed, so let’s say David and I…
After 15 days at sea (actually 15.16…) S/V Julia arrived in Hilo, Hawaii. Departing Oakland for the Pacific Ocean When we departed Oakland and headed out in San Francisco Bay, a thick fog hung over the Golden Gate Bridge. The fog was selective, above us and behind was clear blue sky, but the fog sat…