Our final leg to the Caribbean Passage: Monday, Nov 17 - Friday, Nov 28th, 2025 Click here for Caribbean page: https://www.oceansfive.net/caribbean-home   This final passage of our world journey is a combination of bittersweet and enough already, let’s get this thing done! I know not being able to fly home to meet our new grandson plays into the sense of urgency to return home.   After a couple days at sea, we receive another, unexpected courtesy call from a passing cargo ves

On to Fernando de Noronha! Passage from St Helena to Noronha, 1745 miles:  Wed, October 29 - Mon, November 10, 2025 Fernando de Noronha: Mon, November 10 - Mon, November 17 Click the Link to the webpage: https://www.oceansfive.net/noronha   The windlass squeakily rolls up the anchor chain around noon.  The winds are predicted to be fairly light for the downwind sail to Noronha.  With winds around 15 knots, the Big Banana Parasailor seems like the way to go.  It’s a bit of a p

Return to Cape Town and Beyond…. Passage from Cape Town to St Helena: October 8-18th, 2025 St Helena Island: October 18-29, 2025 Check out the St Helena webpage at this link: https://www.oceansfive.net/st-helena Rob and I fly back to Cape Town on Saturday, September 27th, 2025. I believe everyone reading this likely knows we were home January through September for Rob’s cancer treatments - surgery, chemo and radiation. I don’t think this is the place to delve into that time

On to South Africa! Click to see Africa.. https://www.oceansfive.net/africa Passage from Thursday, November 28 - Wednesday, December 11, 2024. Cape Town: December 11 - December 23, 2024 We depart Reunion Island on a nice, sunny sail on Thanksgiving Day. Sweet Ellie went to work in the galley to make us what she thought would be a traditional American Thanksgiving. Considering there were no turkeys to be had anywhere in the Indian Ocean, she prepared a wonderful pork roast,

Sunday, November 24th - Thursday, November 28th Reunion is a volcanic, mountainous, lush island framed by areas of beautiful beaches and rocky shorelines. It is French owned and inhabited by roughly 800,000 people. Its economy is based on sugar cane products and tourism. And it feels very French. Many of the tourists are from France and many of the people who reside there have relocated from France. And it’s much more sophisticated than many of the islands we’ve visited - go

After a 9 month detour to Houston TX for surgery, radiation and chemo (ughh), we are back to the boat, and Heather is back to blogging. We've got some catching up to do. First thing, here's Heather's blog for Mauritius back in November 2024. Long haul to Mauritius… Passage from Cocos to Mauritius: October 27th - November 9th Mauritius: November 9th - 23rd. Our 13-day crossing to Mauritius for the most part begins well the first 4 days - sunny, breezy, but dark nights with n

To the paradise of Cocos Keeling Passage: October 15th - 22nd Cocos: October 23nd - 26th We find we need to mentally prepare ourselves...

Click for website page.. https://www.oceansfive.net/indonesia Indonesia Crossing from Darwin to Indonesia: September 24-27th Indonesia:...

To Oz we go… Australia - August 13 - September 24, 2024  Click webpage for Videos https://www.oceansfive.net/australia How often do...

CLICK this link: https://www.oceansfive.net/vanuatu to see the active Volcano - On to Vanuatu We depart from Musket Cove, Fiji, on...

Fiji Finally! Pics and video @ https://www.oceansfive.net/fiji This blog may seem longer than usual, because (yikes!) it is! We arrived...

To the Kingdom of Tonga we go…. https://www.oceansfive.net/tonga For the eight day journey we’re facing, we know ahead of time to expect...

The other Society Islands. https://www.oceansfive.net/societyislands We sail into Huahine on Monday morning, around 9am and set anchor...

The Society Islands Part 1- Tahiti, Moorea https://www.oceansfive.net/societyislands On our way to Tahiti, we are told there’s no space...

The coral atolls of the Tuomotus. Check out the location page https://www.oceansfive.net/tuamotus. Another blah blah blah blog. I don’t...

The Marquesas…htg https://www.oceansfive.net/marquesas Anchoring at a small island across from Hiva Oa, as the total eclipse continues to...

You may have received an email the other day of Rob’s post of our crossing. Here is mine. As you can see, it’s much longer (Sorry! As I...

Well. 17 days and 18 hours. The Pacific Crossing. It's a blur. Rob blog. :-) The Earth is an ocean dotted with land. Sixteen days into...

Galapagos: The Second Half Currently, we’ve begun our three week sail to the Marquesas. I haven’t written a single letter of the blog...

Galapagos - The first few days Our first day, Thursday, March 7th, we decide to take it slowly and not to participate in any formal...