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Costa Rica
Thursday’s sail took us just over the border from Nicaragua into Costa Rica. It was a windy day, gusting nearly to 40, and the waves, though small, were whipped into whitecaps. Rod kept as close to...
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Almost There!
Wednesday January 28 – Two days ago we rounded Punta Mariato in Panama, the southernmost point of our voyage at latitude 7º N. We’re now on our way north! The time zone has transitioned into EST which...
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Friday January 30 – We’re here! We have arrived in Panama City, 1727 miles from Ixtapa, 1367 additional miles from San Diego, and 1375 miles more from Seattle, 4469 miles in total! We’ve nabbed a berth...
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Hello Caribbean, Goodbye Pacific!
Hello Caribbean! We cleared the last lock of the Panama Canal yesterday early afternoon and we’ve officially arrived in Atlantic waters. Goodbye Pacific Ocean! Our entire cruising career has been...
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Horse & Style Magazine
This has been a great year for publicity for my photographic efforts. Another magazine contacted me last month in regards to featuring my photos in a two-page spread. I was on AVATAR at the time but...
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Memories from Vanuatu
In our years of cruising to small out-of-the-way Pacific island nations, we have accumulated fond memories of places that many Americans barely know exist. When these small countries suffer a...
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Happy 5th Anniversary to AVATAR
We are currently celebrating our 5th anniversary cruising aboard AVATAR since launching in New Zealand spring of 2010! At the moment we’re sailing up the east coast of the U.S. and, as usual,...
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Reminiscing in Florida
We’re trying a new style of cruising this year. In the past we made on average three trips a year to AVATAR, staying on board for 4-6 weeks each time. But this year Mike, having ‘flunked’ retirement in...
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88 Bridges
To position AVATAR for our ICW adventure, first we had to relocate from South Pacific waters to the continental United States. After accomplishing that in late 2013, it took another two seasons to...
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Waiting For Ana
We’ve been meandering our way north at what feels like an excruciatingly slow place, and currently we’re tied to a dock at Barefoot Landing Marina in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Which, if you check...
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Barefoot Landing
Cruising up the Intracoastal Waterway in the spring of 2015 aboard AVATAR, we were forced to take shelter at a marina as Tropical Storm Ana, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season,...
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Cover Story!
Berthon Lifestyle Magazine XI, Sept 2015 I’m excited to share with you the new issue of Berthon Lifestyle Magazine, a handsome publication produced annually in the UK by Berthon International. That’s...
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Back to Bluewater Cruising!
We’re doing some real live cruising again, heading south towards warmer weather and blue water. Yesterday we caught a mahi mahi trolling from AVATAR’s stern, which was transformed by May into lunch...
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Exodus
Most of our trip we’ve been playing cat and mouse with the weather, one day pouring rain, the next day gusting winds, as we continually monitor the forecast to find a weather window in which to move...
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Local Knowledge
Our first night out of Spanish Wells, we anchored in a bay on Little San Salvador Island. History has it that Columbus first set foot in the Americas in 1492 on San Salvador Island some 50 miles...
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Serendipity
I have a shooting style that would be frowned upon by the purists. Aboard AVATAR, my choice of subject depends more on the luck of my circumstances than the choreography of a planned shoot. I am a...
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Detour
AVATAR is repositioning for our next trip in April to the US and British (and maybe Spanish) Virgin Islands. She left the Turks and Caicos a week ago and is heading further south into the Caribbean by...
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Honors to ‘Wave Riders’
Months ago I entered two prestigious photography contests and today I received notification that BOTH judging panels had selected my image ‘Wave Riders’ for top honors in their final selections. The...
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Who Am I?
We’ve been telling the FPB team for quite awhile now that AVATAR attracts a large number of curious onlookers wherever we go. We have had dinghies sail in circles around us at anchor while snapping...
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PHOTO OF THE WEEK – Fringing Reef #4 Wavelet
The story behind FRINGING REEF #4 WAVELET… The 29th Annual Fund-Raising Gala for Salpointe High School here in Tucson is scheduled for this Saturday, April 23, at the elegant Cross Creek Riding Club...
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