Chapter 191: MADE IT!!
Fiji, Baby! We made it back! What a ride! After a quite windy 2-1/2 day sail from Minerva Reef, we arrived at Vuda Marina in Fiji on Wednesday evening. To…
Chapter 190: 🌊 Surviving a 53-Knot Blow at the Edge of the World: Our Minerva Reef Adventure!
Hey, Meraviglia family! ⛵✨ If you’ve ever wanted to know what it feels like to anchor in the middle of the open Pacific Ocean with absolutely no land in sight—while…
Chapter 189: The One With The Amusement Park
Everybody loves an amusement park, right? The rides, the noise. What an experience. Except when you're on passage. Then, not so much. We have, however, successfully left New Zealand behind!…
Chapter 188: The One With More Electrons
Still waiting on the weather, here in New Zealand, where it's...windy. Very windy. And not warm. Because winter. But, there's hope for a window tomorrow. More on that at the…
Chapter 187: Where There’s Smoke… (And the Art of Waiting for Fiji)
If you’ve been following our journey, you know that sailing life is a beautiful mix of tropical dreams, community connection, and... total mystery. Our latest week in Whangārei started on…
Chapter 186: She’s Dead, Jim.
First, Happy Mothers' Day! The title of this post refers not to that. The featured image is of our mothers out with us sailing on Lake Erie years ago. But,…
Chapter 185: Stay or go??? Wild Weather and Swirling Seas…
May day has arrived in New Zealand! We awoke this morning to the sound of drumming coming from the Canopy Bridge. Annually, the Whangarei Morris Dancers host a “dancing up…