Gadabout Life
gad·a·bout ˈɡadəˌbout/ noun a person who travels often or to many different places, especially for pleasure.
As the old saying goes, the two best days of boat ownership are the first and the last… This week brought our ability to put this saying to the test when...
We have a little catching up to do since our last blog post (when we shipped Gadabout from New Zealand to Mexico) but we’ll keep it short, sharing most of the...
We were in New Zealand. Gadabout’s partial refit was nearly complete – new rigging, new running gear, new lifelines, new canvas, hatches resealed, sails inspected and repaired – and she was...
Sitting on Gadabout’s deck in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico (more on that in our next post), I’m reflecting on our time in New Zealand so many months ago. We shared...
We sailed into the Bay of Islands in northern New Zealand on 09 November 2019 after an 1100-mile, 8-day passage from Tonga. Being here for more than seven months, over five weeks...
We dove in the water and began swimming as fast as we could toward where the whale had last surfaced. This isn’t as easy as it might sound. The view from...
Leaving Palmerston Island in our wake we pointed Gadabout west towards an island that couldn’t be more different. A windless three-day, 400-mile motor sail landed us at the island nation of...
Palmerston Island is part of the southern Cook Islands group. It is a small island that is part of a fringing atoll. It is also the most remote place we have...
We spent a total of six weeks cruising through the Society Islands of French Polynesia. Many cruisers take much longer if their visas allow it. For us, we found that this...
We could see them circling around even before we had the dinghy anchored. They were everywhere, and they were hungry…. Our day began with an intent to snorkel with stingrays and...
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