On the first leg (of what I hope to be a 6-month journey) there will be 5 of us. Bill (the owner/captain who is from Oregon/San Diego and has been calling his boat home for a long-long time), Becky (a 25-year old dive instructor from England who has been working with dive boats here in Cairns for the last year), Andy (a 32-year old personal chef from Texas), Billy (a 28-year old Australian who also has a sailboat here in Cairns), and me.
Our plan is to leave the port of Cairns and set sail for Papua New Guinea (aka PNG) just to the north of Northeastern Australia. It should take around 4 days of non-stop sailing to reach PNG and our plan is to spend all of November and December cruising the islands of PNG, scuba diving the pristine and remote reefs, catching fish/prawns/lobster for dinner, and visiting the remote villages of PNG, bearing gifts such as toothbrushes, pencils, and paper. Things that are useful to them but hard to come by.
Around the first of the year we plan to make our way north across the equator into the Federated States of Micronesia (Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae). We will probably spend January and February cruising these islands and then head over to Palau and spend another month or two there. After 4-5 months (around April/May) we plan to make our way down the eastern Indonesian chain of islands.
Planned Sailing Route
While on the boat we will have NO PHONE and very limited EMAIL. I hope to be able to send out email updates every few weeks and maybe even a picture or two. The boat does have a website where you can read about our latest adventures and follow where in the world we are
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