S/V Rutea Sails Around the World

This post is being written out of sequence.   We arrived in Chagos on the 22nd of April and departed on the 22nd of May, 2015.  With no...

Our 11-day, 1,600-mile passage started out on 22 May when we weighed anchor at Île Boddam in the Salomon Atoll. We had to motor out of the ...

Screen Shot of Our Chart Plotter as We Crossed Our Halfway Around the World Way Point In late 2010, as Ruthie, Corie and I were in the ...

We actually arrived at the entrance to the lagoon at about midnight but only a fool would try to enter without broad daylight. So we hove t...

Our breeze held up almost all day yesterday and we made good time except for a strong east-setting current which took us far off course. We...

There was one topic that dominated the conversation amongst us three boats: The Weather. Everyone cited the details from a different websi...

At anchor off Maarehaa Island with Arigaththaa Island in the background As our stay in the Maldives draws to a close, we once aga...