S/V Rutea Sails Around the World

One of the things that the organizers of Sail Indonesia had warned us about is that things in Indonesia don't always work on the schedul...

After 36 hours of 2.5+ meter seas and 20-25 knots of wind, we anchored in Saumlaki this morning at 0730. Even though the conditions were ab...

We're slightly more than halfway across the Arafura Sea, having left Alcaro Bay near Cape Don last night at 2330. Once we left the wind...

Our spirits were high as we sailed out of Darwin on the beginning of the Sail Indonesia Rally. There were supposed to be 87 boats sailing o...

Cockatoos - Photo by Corie We arrived in Darwin, the capital city of the Northern Territory, on July 7 at 0400, after sailing more tha...

The high-pressure systems persist over southern Australia which generate reinforced trade winds to the Queensland coast. For weeks now, we ...

My excuse for not making more frequent posts to our blog is that we have had sporadic internet access although this is only partly true. Ou...