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: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 - 07:21

All is well here in Honiara. It has been a very pleasant stay so far, calm seas and wind, and clear skies. We are working on our long list of provisioning items. It looks like we will actually

Posted: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 - 06:57

We arrived back to Honiara yesterday around 5pm. It was an easy and generally comfortable motor from Mbili. The seas were a little rolly for the first 8 hours, but they calmed down, and we had

Posted: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 - 07:00

It's hard to believe, but we have been almost cold. It was 25C yesterday at 11am, with a water temperature of 30C. Chilly for us for sure, especially after diving. We have been wearing shorty

Posted: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 - 06:57

Still waiting for the winds to die down before heading SE to Honiara. Looks like we may be able to leave this weekend. We did a 1:35 min dive yesterday along a nice wall. Saw some great stuff, and

Posted: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 - 07:09

Another good day yesterday with diving. Village kids came over to the boat and they swam for a couple of hours. Today we will wire up a new MPPT controller for the dive shop and do another dive

Posted: Wed, 31 May 2017 - 07:00

We had a great day yesterday diving. We saw three different Nudibranches on our dive. The weather overall has been nice with good breeze from the ESE. We've decided to stay a little longer as they

Posted: Tue, 30 May 2017 - 08:15

We missed the net this morning. Argh. It was a late night last night so we slept in past 6am this morning. Today is the big day when the marine conservation conference starts. The kids will be

Posted: Mon, 29 May 2017 - 07:33

It's been a busy couple of days doing fiberglass work. We will hopefully get the last of the fiberglass work finished today. It is a little rainy with wind out of the SE. Sarah baked a cake

Posted: Sun, 28 May 2017 - 08:06

We had a strong thunderstorm last night. The loudest we have had since being in the Solomons. Last night we had a movie night with the village and setup our projector and speakers to show a kids

Posted: Fri, 26 May 2017 - 09:03

The fiberglass work is coming along slowly. We've had more consecutive rain than we have seen since being in the Solomons the past 6 months. Today is another drizzly morning. Elizabeth helped Lisa

Posted: Thu, 25 May 2017 - 08:12

Overall it was a good day. Lots of work on Lutans boat with grinding and general prep work. The kids made cookies for the village and then played ashore in the afternoon. We had a rain overnight

Posted: Wed, 24 May 2017 - 08:15

We had a warm welcome from the village when we arrived to Mbili. Everyone was excited to see us. The Paramount chief - Lutan - was the first to greet us ashore with a big smile and hugs for the

Posted: Tue, 23 May 2017 - 08:39

We have an uneventful 120NM trip from Honiara to Mbili in the Marovo Lagoon. We motored the entire way, but had .5kts - 1kt of favorable current so we made good time and had to sit at the entrance

Posted: Tue, 23 May 2017 - 07:36

jogging around waiting for good light to enter the pass of an un spellable lagoon

Posted: Mon, 22 May 2017 - 07:15

And there were none. All boats have left Honiara. We are picking up the anchor in about two hours and will be going to Marovo Lagoon. It has been overall a very good stay here, meeting lots of new

Posted: Fri, 19 May 2017 - 08:30

We missed the net this morning. Sarah and the kids were up at 6am getting ready for their presentations at the private elementary school here in Honiara. They are giving two presentations today to

Posted: Wed, 17 May 2017 - 07:45

A lot of boats have arrived to Honiara. We had a total of seven yachts here in the Honiara anchorage. It's been overall a good stay. One of our two packages arrived yesterday. We are still

Posted: Tue, 16 May 2017 - 06:33

We are still here in Honiara. Packages are still no here, so we continue to wait. Three more boats arrived in the afternoon. Two of the three boats have kids aboard. This is the most kids we have

Posted: Sat, 13 May 2017 - 07:06

The weather has been great. Every day is sunny, and the evenings seem to be a lot cooler. We plan on staying here for a bit longer as we continue to wait for our package. All is well. The other

Posted: Fri, 12 May 2017 - 06:57

We are still waiting for some packages to arrive. The weather is still very good for the anchorage, with the water very flat. We are in the lee of a SE wind, so we 'may' just be here next week as

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