S/V Rutea Sails Around the World

Lying almost smack-dab right in between Vanuatu and the eastern Australia Coast is the 75-mile long, apostrophe-shaped reef of Chesterfield....

In anticipation of our arrival at Chesterfield Reef, our calculations showed that we'd arrive sometime in the middle of the night at our...

After a near-perfect day of sailing yesterday, the winds picked up right around dusk and stayed at 22-23 knots for almost the entire night. ...

We have slipped into our passage-making patterns, this time being easier than most because our conditions are so good. Flat seas, a steady ...

I awoke yesterday morning with a groan. The display at the head of our bunk showed True Wind Speed (TWS) at 0.0. Our weather forecaster ha...

Querida Familia- We just received the thumbs up from our ace weather router, Bob McDavitt (a NZ character) to jump off from Luganville, E...

The village of Lutes on the island of Lukienuen has been a gracious host to our flotilla of boats that has now grown to six. As we were sai...