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 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 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…
Chapter 182: We sailed 9,866 nautical miles in 2025, now what?!?!?
2025 was a BIG year for Sailing Meraviglia! When we started out the year in Panama, we knew we had some big adventures ahead and we were not sure whether…
Chapter 181: The Last Hurrah of Hefty Hazel
We started our final exploration of the North Island after a couple of days in Whangarei getting Meraviglia fully prepared for our departure to the US for 4 or 5…