S/V Rutea Sails Around the World

  Will it ever run again? We reached a significant milestone on Rutea today when Ruthie and I got the outboard running again.  The raw wa...

Alice Things aren’t necessarily easy for cruisers here in Pago Pago.  Take our friends, Rolande and Angus, aboard the cutter, Periclees....

  Rutea in Pago Pago Ruthie has always been very adept at delivering less-than-ideal news. Most of the time, she'll find some positiv...

Having barely had our fill of fresh coconut water, grated coconut meat, coconut pancakes, banana pancakes and fish from the lagoon (Parrot f...

To American Samoa! Current Position as of 8/2/11 at 3:17 UTC is 13 degrees 21 minutes south and 164 degrees 00 minutes west ----- At 8/3/2...

For the past two days, the wind has been blowing at a steady 20-25 knots and our weather reports shows the seas in excess of four meters. S...

We have been extremely lucky with the systems we have on Rutea, of which there are many. We have a complex electrical system and buried in ...