Pete Cicchine and Chris Jensen arrived in Tahiti after a wearying flight from their and my boyhood home in Pensacola to join me for two weeks aboard Indigo. We have been friends since we were 11 years old, having done the pre-teen and teen years together in Myrtle Grove on the west side of town. […]
Following a memorable Christmas celebration with the crew, which included a Cruella Deville impersonation by our esteemed stew, Darcie Callahan, I returned to Florida for a much awaited reunion with the family, attended to various business matters and caught up with old friends. During this time […]
It might have been a delightful and largely uneventful cruise were it not for the failed air conditioning units. This is but a minor inconvenience when the sea temperature is less than 75 degrees and the air similarly balmy. But here in the subtropics, where the Pacific warms to 84 and the air grows humid, […]
The 300-mile voyage to the Gambiers and its capital, Mangareva, was without notable events. Once again we are graced with nearly perfect weather and sea conditions. A 1:30 departure from Bounty Bay got us inside the fringing Gambier reef just at sunset on the following day. […]
This is a passage of some 1,100 uneventful miles, with gentle seas, whisps of wind and increasingly tropical skies. I and the crew pass these days in a relaxed stupor of naps, books, movies, fine meals and wines (not the crew, though. The captain wisely forbids the crew from drinking while underway.) […]