Mersoleil

Mersoleil is a 2010 Hylas cutter rigged monohull, an H46, built in Taiwan by Queen Long Marine. A bluewater cruiser through and through, she has carried Robbie and Bev more than 50,000nm around the world from 2011 to 2020. Mersoleil will be interviewing new owners in Ft. Lauderdale by spring 2020.

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Posted: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 - 15:07

While it would have been my preference to anchor at Gili Air, we trust our own ground tackle more than anybody else's, this anchorage is so crowded that we picked up a mooring instead and settled in

Posted: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 - 08:06

We've just turned SW from a course of 270 and have had fine sailing for the past many hours. Nice to have the engine off for a change! The only sail is a double reefed genoa and even that's a bit

Posted: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 - 00:18

Yesterday we enjoyed three wonderful dives at Siapa Besar, just 8nm from Rinca Island. The dive boat picked us up at Mersoleil and we had a delightful day with private dive guide Stefano, who sees

Posted: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 - 00:09

Komodo National Parks encompasses several islands, 5 I think, and Komodo Dragons populate most of them. We've come to Rinca Island, much smaller than Komodo where nearly half, more than 1300, of all

Posted: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 - 14:39

Just arrived at Labuan Bajo. Busy place, filled with activity and local boats, all of whose outboards make the put-put-put noise we remember from cartoons. We'll go ashore shortly with the French

Posted: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 - 10:18

Approaching land just as the sun rises and will stop at Labuan Bajo for fel, tickets to Komodo National Park and, if we're lucky, we'll find some fruit and veggies. Passed through a big squall line

Posted: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 - 23:09

Even on the way to the dentist, Robbie's first appointment in Bali is on 22 August, there's a little time to play. We day-hopped to Kroko Atoll, nestled beneath a towering, and smoking, volcano, and

Posted: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 - 01:57

We've taken a detour! Rally festivities begin at Kalabahi, Alor, in the morning, but we're on the fast track to Bali for some unplanned dental tourism. Robbie has an appointment on the 22nd, so we

Posted: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 - 16:41

Mersoleil arrived yesterday morning in Kalabahi, Alor, Indonesia, after a wonderful sail from Kupang, Timor. Once we reached 124 degrees East and turned due north, the winds filled in at 10-12kts

Posted: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 - 16:41

Mersoleil arrived yesterday morning in Kalabahi, Alor, Indonesia, after a wonderful sail from Kupang, Timor. Once we reached 124 degrees East and turned due north, the winds filled in at 10-12kts

Posted: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 - 10:51

We motored the first 12 hours out of Kupang en route to Alor, 130nm to the NE. At 124 degrees east the wind filled in and gave us a fantastic sail overnight, so fast we had to dump some air to hold

Posted: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 - 19:09

Mersoleil arrived in Kupang, Timor and dropped the anchor at 09:30 this morning. There was no wind on Saturday. We motored. There was no wind on Sunday, but we sailed anyway, lazing our way

Posted: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 - 04:51

It's been a funny passage. Predictwind didn't do such a good job as we're accustomed to, so we went to all the trouble to head far off to the north, taking a long route with two tacks in order to

Posted: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 - 12:42

Wind, apparently, is prohibited in the Timor Sea between July 23 and July 26. We've been motor sailing much more than sailing....welcome to equatorial Indonesia. Right onschedule, just as we spend

Posted: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 - 14:18

Ta ta, wonderful Australia! It's been a most excellent nine months! The Sail Indonesia Rally is blasting off today, well, in fact it would be more accurate to say we're drifting off, or even

Posted: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 - 20:09

Darwin, Australia. OK, I'm sorry. I wrote this nice newsy posting just after we arrived in Darwin, last Saturday, but while I was writing it, unbeknownst to me, somebody took the system down for

Posted: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 - 23:30

On passage from Thursday Island, Queensland to Darwin, Northern Territory, crossing the Arafura Sea. We departed Thursday Island July 4th (Happy Independence Day America!) in the late afternoon

Posted: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 - 08:57

No more going North for Mersoleil! Now it's time to turn West! We've reached the Top of Down Under and are anchored at Thursday Island in the Torres Strait. The winds are constant, the 'developed

Posted: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 - 12:52

We departed Lizard Island ... a lovely stop by the way ... in train with Amandla and Atlantis all bound for the Torres Strait. Whether we stop at Thursday Island to provision is still an open

Posted: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 - 22:53

We arrived at Cooktown yesterday morning and dredged a wee channel across the muddy Endeavour River bar into the anchorage area. Pretty area, still hilly as we move north. This is the place where

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