Neptune's Highway

Bruce and Laura have been sailing together for 30 years, mostly in the Caribbean but including New England and western Mediterranean. They purchased Pacific Hwy, a Davidson 44 sloop, in California in April 2012, did the 2012 Baja Haha to Mexico and the 2013 Puddle Jump to the South Pacific. Our plan for the 2016 season: Sail from Australia to New Caledonia. Visit Vanuatu and Solomons and continue on to Palau. 2017, Indonesia. 2018 Haulout and refit in Malaysia. Planning to cross the Indian Ocean in 2019! Oh! And since we're leaving the Pacific behind, we've changed our name to Neptune's Highway!

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Posted: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 - 20:21

Saturday Nov 9. 0900 We left Durban by 0600 this morning in the company of 4 other boats. Everyone along the coast is taking advantage of NE winds to sail south. We hope to make it all the way to

Posted: Sat, 2 Nov 2019 - 18:03

Saturday, Nov. 2. We left Richard's Bay on Tuesday afternoon with the high tide (to get over a sandbar) and arrived in Durban the next morning. Richard's Bay marina was pleasant enough but RB is a

Posted: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 - 17:27

Thursday, Oct. 24, Zululand Yacht Club Marina. We had a swift passage from Bazaruto to Richard's Bay, South Africa, arriving last Wednesday midnight. Our friends on Icaros had come in about 3 hours

Posted: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 - 17:24

Oct.15, Tuesday, 7:00 am We had a good run last night with double reefed sails so kept the boat quiet and we slept really well on our off-watch time. Plus we had the gift of a full moon. I was

Posted: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 - 09:24

Sunday, Oct. 13, 11:00 pm. The five boats anchored at Bazaruto decided to leave today for the 500 mile sail to Richard's Bay, South Africa. It will be our first official port of call in Africa. A

Posted: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 - 23:18

Dropped the hook at 10:30 am local time off Bazaruto. We knew that we would have wind and current on our final approach and we would need to slow down in order to arrive after sunrise but, damn, it

Posted: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 - 08:27

Monday, 10:00 pm. Motored most of the day with very light breeze from astern (or, as Bruce says, "up the butt"). Hot and rolly! Ran the watermaker and topped off tanks, washed decks and had showers

Posted: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 - 15:09

Sunday 10:00 pm. We've been out here 36 hours and covered 220 nm. About 500 more to go and we should arrive Thurs. morning, 10/10 at Bazaruto Island. Two boats we know arrived there today and another

Posted: Sun, 6 Oct 2019 - 04:12

Just watched the sun set as we pass the eastern point of Madagascar and head west to Africa. We left around 9:30 this morning and have had great sailing conditions, covering 60 miles in 8 1/2 hours

Posted: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 - 15:12

We are anchored at Baly Bay on the west coast if Madagascar. We will wait here for a good weather window to make the jump across the Mozambique Channel to Africa. Our goal is to get to Richard's

Posted: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 - 16:42

Anchored off Mamoko Island. This place looks like a movie set with a tiny village perched on a spit of sand. Ashore they have tame lemurs, two giant tortoises that the kids ride, and a single baobab

Posted: Wed, 4 Sep 2019 - 02:30

We sailed 45 miles today to Sakatia Island, off Nosy Be Island. Tomorrow early we'll motor 3 hours to Hellville, Nosu Be to finally check into Madagascar which will take all day. As we are

Posted: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 - 06:06

What a difference a day makes! After a 12 hour snooze, we raised anchor this morning for the 50 mile passage to Mitsios Island. Our friends on Slow Flight decided to stay another day at Cathedral but

Posted: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 - 03:39

Thursday, August 29, 6:15 pm. We transited the top of Madagascar this morning and arrived at a safe anchorage by noon. This trip has been our windiest to date with winds consistently in the 20-30 kt

Posted: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 - 05:24

Wednesday, 9:00 pm. A moonless night but the stars are out which is an improvement over last night. After 24 hours of very slow, comfortable sailing, we took out the second reef this morning and

Posted: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 - 06:21

Tuesday, 10:00 pm. Wind is still steady 16-20 knts on our aft quarter. We put in the second reef at 8:00 this morning so we are going much slower - about 6 knts. It's all about timing to arrive at

Posted: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 - 06:36

Monday, 10:00 pm. Laura does the 10pm to 1 am watch so good time to post an update. We've been sailing downwind with 15-20, wing and wing with reefed jib and main. Last night we rolled up the jib

Posted: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 - 07:09

Sunday, August 25, 10:00 pm. We've been on passage 12 hours and have put 77 miles between Neptunes Highway and Reunion. We motored into a light wind and 3-4 meter swell for the first 3 hours to get

Posted: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 - 21:09

We left Mauritius on July 31 and it was such a fast trip (22 hours) that I didn't get around to updating our position. We have been almost a month in Reunion and it is amazing. There are no

Posted: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 - 15:54

We are still in Mauritius and eating our weight in fresh baguettes and Dhal Puri Roti (our favorite street food). We just hauled out the boat yesterday to remedy our failing bottom paint that we put

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