Cetacea is a 53 foot Cheoy Lee Motorsailor. The owners Tony and Gail Wessendorff (Houston, Texas) retired in 2012 and left St. Lucia where they had been keeping Cetacea for 12 years. In 2013, they sailed from St. Lucia to cruise the western Caribbean and end the year in Panama. In 2014, they transited the Panama Canal, to Galapagos, Marquesas, Societies and ended the year in Tahiti. In 2015, they spent the year in the Society Islands. In 2016, they cruised in the Tuamotus and Societies, and headed west to the Cooks, Niue, Samoa, Tonga and ended the year in New Zealand. In 2017 - 2018, they toured NZ and completed a major refit project. In 2109, they sailed to Fiji and spent the season cruising in the Lau Group, Mamanucas and Yasawas. At the end of the season, they sailed to Vanuatu on the way to the Solomons, where they left the boat for the cyclone season. In 2020, they plan to cruise the Solomons and Vanuatu.