White Hawk

White Hawk is a 1986 Grand Soleil 46' built in Italy by Contiere del Pardo. She has a flush deck, convertible cutter rig, and is white with marine blue cove stripe, coach house stripe, and canvas. Her owners John and Lynette who have owned her since 1999 are cruising the Pacific for their second time.

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Posted: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 - 10:21

Anchored Sunday at beautiful Kumaru Island after a nice sail south from Pigeeyato. Snorkeling Sunday and Monday in the lee of the island, the cut to the south, and near the next islet south revealed

Posted: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 - 20:00

Anchored at Pigeeyatto Island after a great day snorkeling the 2 Japanese ship wrecks at Ollot Island and the pristine reefs off the 2 small islets to the north of Ollot that were teeming with fish

Posted: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 - 10:27

After a rolly Friday night at Tjan, we did a day sail Saturday north to Enea where we anchored in aquiline waters off the pink sand bar to the east. Gorgeous snorkel off the island just to the east

Posted: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 - 09:15

Nice beach walk Friday around Bokanajbirok Island - 2nd island south of Ollot - followed by a beautiful snorkel in the crystal clear waters lagoonside. Moved the boat north and anchored off of

Posted: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 - 21:00

Anchored at beautiful Ollot Island, Maloelap Atoll, RMI.

Posted: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 - 20:45

Anchor down around 1:45 PM Wednesday at beautiful Taroa Island, Maloelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands after an overnight passage from Majuro. The first part of the passage was marked by heavy rain

Posted: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 - 09:30

We were fortunate to arrive in the Marshall Islands just in time to briefly cross paths again with our good friend Jeff Hartjoy, who we first met along with his delightful wife Debbie in the

Posted: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 - 07:27

Still can't shake the convergence. Another night and day of squally weather with winds from 9 to 35 knots, NE to SE. 4m swell on the beam and secondary swell aft made for a rolly ride today but now

Posted: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 - 19:45

We had squalls all night Tuesday (AS time), but nothing over 25 knots and wind of about 14-15k between the squalls. The biggest challenge was dodging the numerous fishing boats plying these waters

Posted: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 - 21:09

Nice sailing the last 24 hours with wind in the 8-18 knot range, averaging 10 or 11. Our hitchhiker stayed with us all night and after daybreak decided that the cockpit cushion looked much more

Posted: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 - 21:45

Sunday brought another night with 25-30 knot squalls and plenty of lightning interrupted by nearly windless spells. Mostly light wind with confused swell from the west, south, and east made it

Posted: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 - 20:39

A short time ago we made our seventh equator crossing on the good ship White Hawk. No wonder we can't seem to make it further west toward a circumnavigation - we keep going north and south! Not long

Posted: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 - 20:54

Friday night brought more light and variable winds dodging lightning squalls but on the plus side, another meteor shower at 5 AM. More light wind Saturday from every direction on the compass kept us

Posted: Sat, 8 Dec 2018 - 22:15

Thanks to calm seas we were able to make way under sail with only 3-4 knots of wind Thursday night and John was lucky enough to witness a spectacular meteor shower at 5 AM. The breeze freshened a

Posted: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 - 22:39

The decision before sunset Wednesday to take the slightly less favored tack to the east of the rhumb line rather than sailing west into the Heart of Darkness - a huge area of thick black clouds

Posted: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 - 21:18

Another squally night Tuesday dodging lots of lightning. Additional excitement was provided by an unidentified ship on AIS speeding up on an intercept course in an apparent attempt to catch us. For

Posted: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 - 20:45

Slow day in very light winds after an "interesting" Monday night. Shortly after John declared "This passage has been so peaceful it almost feels like a vacation," (the kiss of death) things rapidly

Posted: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 - 20:43

Saturday and Sunday brought light and variable winds with some slow but pleasant sailing, some motoring, and a few hours under spinnaker late Sunday afternoon. The benign conditions even allowed us

Posted: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 - 09:06

On the rhumb line to Majuro, RMI. Departed Pago Pago on Thursday under sunny skies and light trade wind conditions but it was not to last as a new surface trough formed over us and our forecast of

Posted: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 - 06:12

Departing shortly from Pago Pago, American Samoa bound for Majuro in the Marshall Islands with probable stops in Funafuti, Tuvalu and Tarawa, Kiribati depending on the wind.

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