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: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 - 09:54

We made it to the island, and had a great trip. We had a lot of current against us, so it took us 12 hour hours to go 64NM, but it was worth the effort. We were fortunate and landed 5 fish, with

Posted: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 - 05:30

We are underway, leaving our anchorage at 3am this morning for the Arvanon Islands. We stayed three nights at Uepi. Overall a nice resort, but not the most yacht friendly. They were nice, but not

Posted: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 - 09:12

We finally moved from our great spot up to Uepi yesterday. It was a mixed feeling aboard as some wanted to stay longer (kids) while the captain and commodore needed some form of internet. Looks

Posted: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 - 07:30

We had a cloudy morning that was not great for diving, so we did school on Saturday, waiting for the weather to clear. In the end we decided to go ashore and build a fire to burn some rubbish. The

Posted: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 - 09:21

The sqaull blew through and around noon the sun was shining and we headed for the reef. We went fishing with squid we caught off the boat, and caught was we believe was a shark. We had it on the

Posted: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 - 06:18

We had a heck of a squall this morning. It blew off one of our petrol cans, and was blowing in the high twenties, possibly low 30s. I jumped in the dinghy in torrential rain to try to find the can

Posted: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 - 08:57

Elizabeth and I did a couple of dives yesterday. The first dive was only 15min because we actually had too many gray sharks circling around us. They are genearlly not a problem, but with 4 circling

Posted: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 - 08:30

We moved here a couple of days ago because the wall and reef are excellent. In general the water clarity is very good and the snorkeling/diving is the best we have seen so far in the Solomons. A

Posted: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 - 08:45

We had a full day of rain yesterday...and now we have full water tanks. It was actually nice to have the cool rain as the rain is literally cooler than the ocean water. The ocean is between 28 - 29

Posted: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 - 11:21

It was a beautiful day yesterday. Sunny all day and we found the best diving/snorkeling site we have seen so far in the Solomons. It is epic...and will be a great place for us to spend the next

Posted: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 - 09:33

We missed updates for the past couple of days. s/v Rehua joined us from Tulagi and there are now three boats up here. We moved to this anchorage as it is supposed to have good diving and there are

Posted: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 - 09:18

It was a beautiful day yesterday. Matt and I left for a nice wall dive, only to find out that our dive compressor was on the blink. We did a snorkel instead and I ordered parts to fix. We must

Posted: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 - 09:15

Another day, another dive. ;-) Lisa at the local dive shop organized a Crown of Thorns collection spree on the reef here. In total 210 were collected in bags and removed from the reef. Today

Posted: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 - 08:42

We had a day of diving yesterday. It was another good dive. Sarah and Elizabeth really enjoyed the wall and coral. We will be leaving this anchorage on Wed to head up to a good market in Mbatuna

Posted: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 - 09:33

The weather was not great for diving yesterday, so we went ashore and spent time with the villagers and had a movie last night onboard with s/v Perry. Today is the sabbath for the village, so there

Posted: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 - 09:15

Another great dive yesterday. We had sunny skies in the AM and had a nice dive with good light and some great photos. Today is a little more overcast, so we will see if we get out for another dive

Posted: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 - 09:30

We went to the village school and did a two presentations about where we are from, where we have been and sailing. It went well, even though the kids were very shy and did not ask too many

Posted: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 - 09:27

Well, word is out in the villages in the area about stuff getting fixed. We had another person come over from Mbili island and ask for the 'fiberglass man'...who is Matt. He said he heard there was

Posted: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 - 09:42

We had a great day yesterday, with lot of items fixed. Two boats were fixed, one aluminum and one fiberglass. In addition we fixed a couple of solar charging stations so the locals could charge

Posted: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 - 09:06

We moved over to another anchorage near the paramount chief's village. We spent most of the day working on his long boat that was damaged in a wave on the reef. Most is now fixed and today we will

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