Navire

Pacific 38 sloop. Sailed to Fiji, Rotuma, Tuvalu, Kirbati and Majuro in the Marshall Islands. Staying there until April 2017. Crew David Mason and Janet Nixon

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Posted: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 - 14:39

Just a quick post to get us back to Majuro via Toronto. Halifax was awesome. Meeting more family, visiting then site of a memorial to David's father's death (in 1952). *** =46rom Facebook post

Posted: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 - 02:54

Usually when I'm travelling I'm looking for the exotic, to examine cultures different to mine. But this time I'm content that this Canadian culture is so similar to my own. Although ultimately travel

Posted: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 - 02:54

Where to from here? "What are your plans from here?" Almost everyone we have visited here in Canada has asked us this question. Now yachties are not very good at sticking to plans as you never know

Posted: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 - 13:42

Aug 8 Victoria to Toronto August 1 Back on the road again. 5am, bleary eyed, packing like a finely tuned machine. Car, ferry, bus, train, plane. "We are going to play poker," said an

Posted: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 - 21:54

Victoria August 1 Crossing from Vancouver to Victoria on the ferry had the same feel as being in the Marlborough Sounds. The ferry wove its way through narrow channels. Clear, clear blue sky, a

Posted: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 - 03:27

Canada update Vancouver Now you may note that on the Google map (if you click the link) our boat looks like it is in Canada but we flew here, leaving Navire moored back at Majuro. Vancouver July 29

Posted: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 - 04:45

Honolulu surpassed our expectations. So much for not having many people to see there. First our lovely host Nick. We met Nick in 2010 where he was sailing in Tonga with his parents. He crewed for us

Posted: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 - 19:27

Navire is sitting on her mooring in the lagoon at Majuro, abandoned by her crew who have opted for air travel for a change. We now wait, as you inevitably do at airports, at Majuro's tiny terminal

Posted: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 - 13:24

Its dawn, although the light has trouble seeping through the heavy grey clouds. I'm watching the buckets at the back of the cockpit fill with water. As always we gather every precious drop, still

Posted: Mon, 23 May 2016 - 12:40

David It rained. Several times. We are restraining ourselves from believing the drought broken, the summer rains arriving. Our cockpit remains festooned with every available container, now brimming

Posted: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 - 15:00

It's David's birthday today. I took two chocolate cakes into David's work where he running a course on suicide prevention for 10 local counsellors here in Majuro in the North Pacific. They sang him a

Posted: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 - 12:16

position 07 06.182n 171 22.427e April 4 Bilgewater Band did its first private gig yesterday. Our only Kiwi friend on the island, Liz, from Wellington no less, turned 40, and had an afternoon party on

Posted: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 - 10:20

position 07 06.182n 171 22.427e We are not in Fiji! I recently started catching the blog up and posted two from Fiji, resulting in a few people thinking we were in there for the recent hurricane. We

Posted: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 - 10:15

We've been here nearly a month now but have barely started on our burgeoning To Do lists. its taken this whole time to recover from a tenacious cold virus that struck us both low. I've had very

Posted: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 - 13:26

It was a crappy passage to teh Marshall Islands. The prevailing winds were NNE and we were going NNW. I was reminded of the sailing adage "Gentlemen don't sail to windward" Well this lady would

Posted: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 - 22:22

After a lovely couple of weeks in Abaiang we sailed back to Tarawa to provision and clear customs and immigration. Horrible exposed bouncy anchorage. Looked like headwinds most of the way to Majuro

Posted: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 - 20:56

Merry Christmas from Navire At last we stop, for a few days at least. We are at Abaiang, a rarely visited (by yachts or imitang - white people) northern Kiribati atoll. We arrived at the southern end

Posted: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 - 20:57

Tarawa, Kiribati December 20 I've just put the Christmas decorations up, all five of them. When we get to our next destination we'll find a branch and decorate it with tin foil and clothes pegs.

Posted: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 - 20:57

We are in teh northern hemisphere!(written a week ago) 1045 Saturday December 12, 2015 David We crossed the equator a few hours ago. A big moment. This was the schedule of events: 1] The ritual abuse

Posted: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 - 05:03

Nanumea, Tuvalu December 6 We made it into the Nanumea atoll. One of the fleet nearly didn't. Click on the link to see where we are. The pass into this lagoon is very narrow and shallow and has swell

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