S/V Rutea Sails Around the World

Long Tails at Dawn - Koh Rok Nok, Thailand Ruthie and I were a little anxious as we went to clear out of Malaysia in Talaga Bay...

Ruthie and I had been anxious about Rutea’s splash back into the water, not because we were concerned about any of her systems/com...

One of my favorite lines in the movie Dances With Wolves takes places when Lieutenant John Dunbar (played by Kevin Costner) is travelin...

--> We learned through the cruiser’s grapevine that you don’t want to stay in Indonesia even one day past your cruising permit’...

The freighter traffic was getting heavy as we made our way north though Selat Riau, the wide channel that works it way towards Singapor...

We were relieved to get out of Kumai and delighted when we found enough wind to be able to fly the spinnaker for most of the afternoon. As ...

It was hard not to get impatient as we waited for the boat to take us up to the Tanjung Puting National Park.   First light happ...