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, 16 Apr 2017 - 10:42

Happy Easter! We had a great motor sail up to Fat Boys from Munda. It was beautiful, and we were actually able to sail a bit with the wind. We are the only boat here, and it is nice and quiet

Posted: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 - 09:00

Sarah had a great day in the bush with the English teacher. She was impressed with the program this lady is putting in place to help the village kids (and parents) learn English. Our visas are

Posted: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 - 08:18

It's official! Elizabeth is a certified Open Water diver. It was a great to have her certified and see her really excel at the process of learning details of diving from an instructor. While I

Posted: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 - 08:12

It was a good day, with Elizabeth out diving for her class and a nice happy hour last night with s/v Rehua and an Italian boat and the dive instructor from Munda Dive. Today is the final day for

Posted: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 - 07:39

We had a nice motor over to Munda yesterday. What a different a clean bottom makes. We added 1-1.2kts of boat speed by cleaning the bottom. Elizabeth has her class at 8am this morning. There are

Posted: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 - 11:54

A second night of great rain, filling our tanks. We have done five loads of laundry in the past two days. We only have two more to do, and we will be all caught up. That means Sarah is happy

Posted: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 - 08:30

We had a deluge of rain last night. It was great to fill up our water tanks. We have laundry in store for today. We have been getting up to date on blogs and other items while we have reasonable

Posted: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 - 08:51

We went to skull island to view the skull shrine that the villagers made. It was interesting to see all the skulls. The surf was not safe enough for the kids...so we did not do any surfing as we

Posted: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 - 11:45

We spent the last two days doing diving off the back of the boat, both cleaning the bottom of the boat and letting Elizabeth work on her diving skills. The resort here has been very nice. We should

Posted: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 - 11:23

We are at Lola resort. It is nice and there have been basically no visitors here...so very quiet. We've been doing some diving and plan to explore the outside reef probably later day. The weather

Posted: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 - 09:36

We went out to dive and had an equipment malfunction. The o-ring on one of the dive tanks was not working, so we ended up just snorkeling. It was a very good spot, lots of fish and the most sharks

Posted: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 - 09:21

It was a good day yesterday as we got settled into our new anchorage here in Munda. We spent some time ashore exploring the WWII artifacts. The locals told us they killed a 3-4m croc in the bay two

Posted: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 - 16:01

We just arrived to Munda after two days in Noro. We were lax on giving updates the last couple of days. We've been very busy getting re-provisioned and actually getting some slow but usable 3G

Posted: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 - 10:12

We found a new anchorage that has crystal clear water and a sandy bottom. We are anchored in 18m, and can clearly see the hook. This is probable the clearest water we have seen in a long time

Posted: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 - 09:42

We saw two very large megapode nest areas. The rangers dug in deep and pulled out an egg for us. It is not egg season, so we could not keep the egg, but it was neat to see how large the eggs were

Posted: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 - 09:12

We moved to a new island and anchorage yesterday. It is stil part of the same marine reserve. Normally yachts are not allowed to anchor here, but if you get special permission from the rangers, and

Posted: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 - 09:18

One of the park rangers - Rudy - who has been here for about 10 years, along with another 10 year veteran, went diving. Rudy had never been before, and to see him fall in love with diving was just

Posted: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 - 11:36

The 'dive class' went well. A total of three rangers wanted to go diving, but I was only able to accomodate two. It was fun to see them experience breathing underwater for the first time. They had

Posted: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 - 08:42

We had another good day here with the park rangers. They are very nice guys and helpful in explaining the habitats. We went snorkeling with three rangers. They took us in their longboat about 2

Posted: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 - 08:45

It was a great day yesterday. Unfortunately I missed the best part while taking a nap. Sarah and the kids went ashore to socialize with the park rangers while I took a nap. The rangers took them

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