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“We were just advised to move to deep water via loudspeaker in Neiafu, and to listen to "Radio Tonga," or at least… I think that's what I heard?” It’s late July, 2025, and cruising boats in the Pacific are on high alert for an incoming tsunami: the WhatsApp groups are on fire as sailors try to understand their level of risk, and what they should do.
In the sca...
The unscripted nature of cruising life is alternately liberating and challenging. For all the challenges of the last year, it held so much joy in the lessons from our travels in the western Pacific. Offered here: milestones and a few magical experiences, vignettes as inspiration fodder or a vicarious diversion.
...Whether you are a dreamer who won’t set sail for years, or an active cruiser with many miles under the keel – read on for ideas from our cruiser community to inject enthusiasm when planning, and make the most of the destinations that you experience along the way. And maybe… got any gaps on your holiday gifting list?– Here are some ideas! They help answer two big questions:
Konnichiwa / こんにちは from Okinawa, Japan, where 11 weeks to the day after starting south from Hokkaido, Jamie and I pulled into the same berth where we made landfall in Japan nearly six months ago.
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You’ve sailed a long distance, to somewhere warm, and you’ve made a friend. A stalk of bananas swinging from a boat’s arch is a kind of cruising merit badge for this trifecta. Look around any anchorage in the Marquesas: if it isn’t a stalk of bananas, it’s a pamplemousse globes tucked into a netting hammock, broadcasting the same message. Plucking a banana from their deck ‘tr...