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: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 - 07:36

The weather has been excellent. Sunny skies, light winds and some great diving. We logged three dives yesterday and about 2 hours of spear fishing. The kids played for hours on the sand spits near

Posted: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 - 07:36

We had a great day yesterday, with beautiful weather. We moved to the small island, called bird island, in the northern part of the atoll. It is beautiful here with thousands of birds that nest on

Posted: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 - 07:12

We had an excellent day. Early in the morning I went to the giant taro garden, and spent a couple of hours working the taro, and learning how village grows them so large. It was infested is

Posted: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 - 06:00

It was a very good day. One of the elders of the village invited us to dinner with his family. It was a big dinner made with local food. It was great, and the warmth and hospitality of the family

Posted: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 - 06:57

We had the most rain in months. It rained most of the day. Almost felt like NZ... :) The other news is I crashed the drone while filming the canoe race. The race started after the rain stopped

Posted: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 - 07:03

It's currently raining, with lots of wind in squall after squall. We've had the most rain since arriving to PNG. We are going to be heading to the taro garden at 7am, in about an hour. All well

Posted: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 - 07:33

We had our best day since being in PNG. It was sunny all day, and we had a great time with the village helping with the school and projects. We are going to the gardens tomorrow to learn about how

Posted: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 - 07:12

Today we will be presenting to the school. This week starts a week of learning about books across all of the PNG schools, so we will be donating some books to the library and giving a presentation

Posted: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 - 18:06

The weather has been a little more rainy than we have had in the past couple of weeks. Today in particular we have virtually no sun. We had a good time in the village, getting to know more about

Posted: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 - 07:51

The wind has picked up this morning a bit. We had two nice days of low to no wind, with nice days and little rain. This morning seems to be another fine day. Ozzy Osbourne is no longer with us

Posted: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 - 07:06

It was another good day, with some small squalls but overall a very nice day. The wind is down < 10kts, and it's very calm here. There were more small projects in the village, some with fixing

Posted: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 - 08:51

We have a new temporary pet aboard. The kids found a baby chicken and adopted it for a week or so. The chick is deformed. It has only one eye and the beak is twisted in different directions

Posted: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 - 07:00

The weather was great yesterday. Sunny most of the day, with the occasional squall. It was a very busy day as well. We fixed 11 fiberglass canoes and one long boat. Sarah went with 35 ladies in

Posted: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 - 07:39

All is well. Yesterday was a holiday in PNG, and we spent the day celebrating with the locals. The highlight of the day was the canoe race. Each canoe was rigged with a sail and they had about 15

Posted: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 - 08:00

It was an interesting day yesterday. The locals here are very generous. We had a canoe pull up to the boat with 35 fresh green coconuts. They insisted we take them as a gift. They would not

Posted: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 - 08:15

We arrived yesterday in the morning after drifting most of the night since we got here so early. It was a very good sail. This island is very remote, and our first stop in PNG. They rarely get

Posted: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 - 07:03

We've been having a great sail. We are making faster progress than expected as the winds are stronger than anticipated. We will probably arrive around 8pm and hove to for the evening before

Posted: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 - 07:09

It was a great day yesterday, with sunny skies most of the day. We have moved down to the SW corner of the reef, for hopefully some final diving before we leave for the PNG Atoll, about 180NM NW of

Posted: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 - 07:33

We had an eventful day to say the least. After a couple of dives, while back to the boat, we noticed our dinghy had drifted away from the back of Field Trip. The painter had chaffed and let our

Posted: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 - 07:00

The weather has been typical of the past month or so. We get sun, clouds, and a squall or two during the day. It's been cool with the breeze, and generally nice. The outside of the reef was very

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