Field Trip

Field Trip is and Antares 44i Catamaran that it sailing the South Pacific. We have two kids onboard - Michael (7) and Elizabeth (9). The owners are Mark and Sarah Silverstein.

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Posted: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 - 12:48

We had a great time at the village celebration and left around 3.30pm yesterday for YAP. We sailed all night and are now about 2 hours away from the pass. It was a great sail?light winds, following

Posted: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 - 09:45

Today is the big day in the village. It is a full day of eating, dancing and playing games in celebration of their local church founder/priest. We made a couple of cakes and will be going ashore at

Posted: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 - 10:57

We are still here at Ulithi and woke up to a blustery, rainy morning. We?ll take it easy today, and go ashore once this rain stops. Tomorrow is a big party, in remembrance of the founder of their

Posted: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 - 21:48

We arrive to Ulithi and had a great welcoming from the local village at MogMog. All our friends were here, and the kids were on shore singing a song to Michael as we approached. It was great fun to

Posted: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 - 14:09

All is going much better as the sea state has settled and there are no 35kt squalls on the horizon. We are about 20NM from the entrance to the atoll, and should be arriving to the village in Ulithi

Posted: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 - 22:00

We?ve been getting more wind than forecast. It?s been blustery and the sea state rather confused?so not great for comfort aboard Field Trip. We will be arriving tomorrow around noon to Ulithi

Posted: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 - 10:03

We are departing in about an hour from Guam, sailing to Ulithi Atoll and then off to Yap. We expect to trip to take just over two days at 370NM. We will have following seas and winds of 18-20kts

Posted: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 - 13:36

We?ve had a very busy several weeks getting Field Trip ready to go back to Yap. We have new engines! We had them in place before Christmas so it was a heck of a present. Volvo paid for

Posted: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 - 10:51

An update from Field Trip. We?ve settled into Guam rather easily. Gotten plugged into the local community, and are enjoying some comfort food from the many different options that remind us of home

Posted: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 - 09:36

We are a day late on our update. We arrived safely to Guam. We had a great last 18 hours of beam reaching in 10-13kts of wind. It was a very good sail overall, and we made it here with 1 tack, and no

Posted: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 - 14:27

We had three reefs last night to keep the boat slowed down as the rough seas made for uncomfortable ?fast? sailing. Today we pulled to all but one reef and are moving along nicely with a better sea

Posted: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 - 18:00

Overall we?ve been having good sail. Seas are large and somewhat confused as expected from the tropical storm, but otherwise, we are making good progress. We will be arriving to Guam tomorrow.

Posted: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 - 21:54

We left around noon for Guam. It was to messy at anchor and much more comfortable sailing. All is going well. We should arrive on Saturday.

Posted: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 - 09:09

Let?s just say it is howling here. We?ve have a very bumpy night at anchor here in the lagoon. The winds have been howling during this tropical storm. We?ve seen consistent winds of mid 30?s with

Posted: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 - 10:53

We had a great day. The village had a small ?going away? party for us, with large baskets of food, which included fish, coconut crabs, and local tarro. They sang songs and wished us well. Of

Posted: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 - 08:12

The winds have died down here, which makes it very nice in the lagoon. The howling 18-22kts for the past several days made the entry/exit to the beach rough and wet. Now it is much better. We plan

Posted: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 - 09:21

We had some kids come up and ask us if they could play on the boat. They did not make it with the other group?so?we said sure. It turned out to be another two loads of kids, about 20 more, who

Posted: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 - 09:27

The chief asked us to have another movie night, so we did. It was a big rough out on the trip to shore, but worth the effort as everyone showed up again and had a lot of fun. We also had the kids

Posted: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 - 11:03

Another fun day with the village. Sarah and kids went to the elementary school to teach, and I stayed with the guys. We put on a movie night last night for the village. We have a small projector

Posted: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 - 10:06

The boat is fixed, top and bottom, and we used up all the resin. We are keenly watching the weather models. GFS shows a strong depression moving this way, the other models not so much?so we are in

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