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: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 - 15:51

We are now back to the Mentawais after a smooth motor all night with our new guests. It was an easy trip. We'll be here for 3-5 days exploring this area some more and waiting for friends to arrive

Posted: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 - 13:12

Well, we've been in Padang now for 24 hours. We had an excellent time with our friends and are sad to have them gone. Kids are sullen as they miss their friends..but school is now underway onboard

Posted: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 - 21:48

We leave in an hour from the beautiful spot to sail to Padang. We've had an outstanding week with our friends and it will be sad to see them leave. The winds will be low and variable so we'll

Posted: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 - 02:00

We had another great day here. This anchorage is excellent. We can swim to the sandy beach island or the island to our south. The diving has been the best we've seen in Sumatra, and everyone is

Posted: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 - 23:51

We moved today after our morning dive to a spot about 20NM north. It is beautiful here, with a small 'all sand' island and lots of waves. There are a ton of surfers in this area and the waves

Posted: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 - 13:06

I've missed a couple of days doing the update. We arrived no issues to the Mentawai islands around 9am on Sunday. We were in the water diving at 11am, and logged a couple of dives after arrival

Posted: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 - 12:57

Yesterday was the wettest day we've had since leaving New Zealand over two years ago. It rained and rained and we got soaked going to Immigration for our visa renewals. The good news is the outlook

Posted: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 - 12:51

We've enjoyed being in one spot for a bit. We've been on the move the past two weeks covering 1,100NM, so we are taking a break and getting some things done on the boat like fixing water catching

Posted: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 - 15:51

We had a good motor/sail into the harbor yesterday afternoon. We are now getting ourselves familiar with Padang as we prepare for our friends and get ready for some diving. The weather has been a

Posted: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 - 16:03

We had to motor overnight as the winds dropped and we got slammed with lots of squalls. We are now sailing again and should be arriving later today to Padang. It is wet, wet, wet outside, but

Posted: Sun, 7 Oct 2018 - 12:15

It's been a good sail. Almost all a dead run, wing on wing. We hit our first squall in over a month, with some decent rain to wash the boat. We decided to make a run straight for Padang vs

Posted: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 - 09:15

So far the sailing has been very good. Following seas and an almost dead run. We are sailing wing on wing and hope the wind continues for at least another 24 hours as we sail farther north towards

Posted: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 - 12:15

WOW. What a day we had. We spent a total of 14 hours exploring the jungle, seeing the tigers, and learning all about their natural habitat. We had one of our best days we ever had, and our best

Posted: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 - 11:57

We arrived last night around 7pm to the national park. We were greeted after a lot of flashing lights ashore by a park ranger and some guys in a boat. Very nice chaps, but insistent I go ashore to

Posted: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 - 16:27

We are slowly sailing past the volcano, which is currently erupting. We decided to check online for any warning before anchoring at the base of the volcano for a close up experience and diving

Posted: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 - 07:24

We had to update you YIT account to post. We were offshore and just now got some land based cellular internet. We are having a great sail, and all is well onboard. The winds have died so we are

Posted: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 - 07:24

All has been going well. We were averaging 8 kts until about 5 hours ago when the wind dropped out. We are now motoring.

Posted: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 - 16:45

Well it's been flat out aboard Field Trip. We spent three days up the river with the Orangutans - which was amazing. Upon returning our friends aboard s/v Perry had arrived from the other side of

Posted: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 - 12:18

We dropped the hook here last night around 4am to wait until light before heading farther up the bay and into the river. There was a LOT of barge traffic last night so we decided to wait until

Posted: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 - 14:36

The winds have finally picked up nicely and we are moving along towards Borneo. We should be arriving tomorrow morning. We are zipping along wing on wing and are having a nice comfortable sail

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