Pacific Crossing 2010-11
 

March Pictures

Pre Galapagos departure with Noel and Jackie from Pyewacket.

Last sight of land leaving Las Perlas as we begin our passage

Our view for the next five days

and nights

As usual Champ did all the steering

Then just after midnight on March 6 we reached the equator.

Solemn ceremony for King Neptune

Read by each of us

One for King Neptune

One for Amy

One for Roger

Well, maybe more than one

All smiles the next day on the other side of the Equator

and after 600 miles Pyewacket and Shango meet again!

We sailed the next two days within sight of each other

Our first sight of San Cristobal

900 miles of perfect sailing.
Almost continuous winds of 15-25 knots.
Broad reaching or downwind. 
Favorable current
Three 190+ mile days
7.1 knot average speed for passage
No Squalls.

Remarkable luck for first Pacific passage

A spectacular sail down the coast to Wreck Bay.

Extinct Volcanoes

Green plains

Rocky shores

Huge offshore rocks

Shango has never been in prettier waters

Pyewacket also enjoying the beauty

Wreck Bay. Anchor almost down.

Our post passage ritual........no comments about the Champagne choice.

Reality and Shango checking into Immigration with Joseph our agent

Sharon and Amy checking out food options

a mysterious fruit tree

A car growing weeds

Noel picked out the place for our celebration lunch.

It had good taste in baseball jerseys

and we celebrated our passage

On the way back to the boat the sea lions were everywhere

asleep on the sidewalk

and a little more natural on the beach

At night there were hundreds on the main beach

Joseph delivering fuel right to our boat. Life is good, no lugging jerry jugs.

Park Interpretive Center. Very well done history of Galapagos..

Our diving guide Franklin.

Turtles

Marine Iguanas

Blue Footed Boobies

Leon Dormido, our snorkel site. Amazing wall dives on two sides of the rock.

The whole crew, Reality and Shango

Sea lion playing in rock cut

Marine growth on the rock wall

Playing with the Sea Lions

They loved to clown around

Small shark below us

Land Tour

five year old tortoises

a little older....they live to be 150 years old

Curare, Shango, and tortoises

Whale skeleton

The land tour crew. Shango, One World, Curare and Reality.

El Junco, a fresh water lake in an old Volcano crater

The day of the tsunami we spent 10 hours outside the harbor motoring and sailing around. Mala Conducta
is a beautiful cat built at Lyman Morse in Maine (Note the sea lion preventers on the swim platforms.)

The famous Darwin finch

and the Finch's favorite food, Opuntia, cactus flower

Mystery flower

Mohini arriving from Panama

Curare departing for Easter Island

Our last night in the Galapagos with Mohini

Leaving the Galapagos for the Marquesas, 3084 miles and ? days

First four days were very light air, two days of motoring and two days of the Purple Monster

and a few squalls to dodge

big event of the first week was our first ship sighting.....saw 3 during entire passage.

Pizza and beer celebration at half way point

More Spinnaker

Constant attention to chafe prevention and repair

Wing on Wing overnight, previously taboo on Shango, became accepted practice

You Tube Videos of Marquesas Passage

Afternoon Underway

We got pretty good at setting the spinnaker....could get it up or stowed in 15 minutes

except for our first several days, every morning brought the promise of another beautiful day 

Every morning we also had our daily collection of flying fish casualties

Sail changes, reading, eating and sleeping were the main activities

On the morning of our 22nd day Fatu Hiva appeared right where she was supposed to be!

Our first sights of Fatu Hiva as we make our landfall in The Marquesas

Our anchorage

It was hard to believe that we were actually in the Marquesas as we approached Hanavave's  Bay of Virgins.

Rock formations like we had never seen

Beautiful afternoon colors

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