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: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 - 07:06

We are currently underway to Kaveing, PNG. We expect to arrive in the afternoon. The sail has been good, but slow with light winds. We have been wing on wing most of the way, with the occasional

Posted: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 - 08:12

The diving and the weather have been excellent. Sunny with scatter clouds each day, and the water had been clear with some very nice reefs. Last night the locals had a dinner for us onshore that

Posted: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 - 09:36

It was a beautiful day yesterday, and it looks like today will be another very nice day. We did some exploring underwater for some dive sites and found a couple worth exploring today. We also fixed

Posted: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 - 07:54

We arrived safely to Tabar Island. It was a slow but very comfortable sail. We averaged 4.1kts for the 88NM journey. Not too bad given the wind was aft of the beam and it was light. The village

Posted: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 - 08:15

Overall we have had a good sail. It's nice to be sailing at these latitudes, even if it is a little slow right now. We had one squall last night that packed 12kts of wind, and gave us a good boost

Posted: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 - 08:54

We didn't leave yesterday. We decided to stay one more day as the winds were still hopping around 20kts in the morning. However, we may regret our decision as the winds have died down...so it will

Posted: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 - 08:51

The village had a 'going away' dinner for us. They cooked a meal, and we prepared some food and had an early dinner with the chief and his clan. It was very nice, and he made a nice speech telling

Posted: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 - 08:15

The diving continues to be great. We found more fish and nudibranchs we have never seen before. Elizabeth found a rare anglefish, and was very excited when she snapped a good picture. We also had

Posted: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 - 09:45

We had a great day, hiking to the market in the morning and diving in the afternoon. The market was 5km each way, and a very unique experience. Rarely does the village on the other side of the

Posted: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 - 07:24

The birthday party went well. We did some snorkeling around the island. The water is crystal clear. The reef is again average. It must had to do with the type of island this is, as with the

Posted: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 - 07:12

Today is Elizabeth's birthday, so I am up early to make doughnuts for breakfast. No rain last night, and all is well. We'll do some diving today and get to know the village this afternoon. There

Posted: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 - 19:18

We had a great sail last night and arrived to Boang Island just after lunch. We caught a nice yellow fin tuna around sundown. After arriving to this new anchorage we were greeted by a lot of

Posted: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 - 08:30

Today we are leaving. It is a beautiful day today, as it was yesterday as well. The winds are light, and we will be heading almost due East, so it should be OK for a slow but calm sail. I went for

Posted: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 - 08:18

Sarah and the kids taught about 80 kids in school for 3 hours. It went very well, and everyone seemed to enjoy the class/presentations. I worked on fixing 10 fiberglass boats, and got those sorted

Posted: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 - 08:15

The time changed for us here at Nuguria. The locals use PNG time, which means we went back an hour. That puts the GHR net at 5am for us, so we will not be on the net daily as we were before. We'll

Posted: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 - 10:15

We had an excellent day yesterday with sunshine all day. Unfortunately the snorkeling/diving is not great. I was amazed at how barren the passes were. We went to three of them and they all were

Posted: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 - 09:30

The villagers are very friendly. We spent part of the morning fixing a large solar charging station that was installed by the government. It is 360watts, and has not been used for two years as the

Posted: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 - 18:54

We arrived safely to Nuguria Atoll about 3pm today. We had a great sail, all downwind, with comfortable seas. The bad news is the fish won the tournament. We landed two nice yellowfin tuna, but

Posted: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 - 04:27

We've been having great spinnaker sail for the past 12 hours. We just did a sail change as squalls started popping up. We plan on arriving to Fead Island late this afternoon, and hope the winds

Posted: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 - 06:51

We are leaving at 0630 this morning for Nuguria Island (3 22S, 154 41E). We expect a spinnaker run for most of the trip with light winds. This atoll and village has been one of our top two

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