Category: sv evi
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Luxury mom vacation in Wainiha, Kauai
Taylor is my bonafide mermaid friend. She’s a spear fisher, surfer, free diver, wing foiler, artist, kid magnet, and chef. She’s also humble, kind, funny, and generous. When we parted ways in Fiji last summer, we both cried, along with Luz. We had been talking about trekking in Nepal for her 40th…then she decided she’d…
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When the cat’s away…
We met Taylor, Brad and 4yo Rex while they were cruising their boat, Pangea, in New Zealand. Instant friendship developed and we connected often over the next year in idyllic anchorages of NZ and Fiji. When Hannah received an invite to visit Taylor for her 40th birthday in Hawaii, well…how could she say no?!? We were…
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Malaysia: monkeys, street art and food
We cleared into Malaysia on October 1st. It’s now November 2nd, and we are in Langkawi, a duty-free island just south of the border to Thailand. We are in our fourth marina in a month! In our 8 months in Indonesia we only stayed at 2 marinas (one of which was free). Part of the…
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Reflections after 2 years of living aboard evi
Luz (7) Some of my favorite things to do on the boat are color, play games, swim, and play on the paddleboard. I also play Aina Amelia with Jade — it’s a really fun game we made up. Sometimes Mama really nicely lets us do video games. Passages can be fun, but normally they are…
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Boulders in Belitung
We had a rough passage from Kumai, Borneo to Belitung. It took us 48 hours: it involved 2 sick children and Riki hand-steering for 3 hours in the dark because the autopilot couldn’t handle the wind direction/wave combo. Both Jade and Luz recovered after the first night but it’s hard parenting sick kids at sea.…
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Birthday in Borneo
I had been looking forward to seeing the orangutans in Borneo since before coming to Indonesia. I bought the kids rain boots last year in Cairns, Australia to protect against fire ants and leeches in the rainforest. By the time we got to Borneo, I had to buy them new boots as they had outgrown…
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On the move again
We spent 12 days in the marina hanging out with the awesome crew (Caz, Milla, Ziggy, and Hamish for just one night) of SV Cooeyanna, cleaning, and preparing to leave. Riki replaced our windlass with the new one. One day we decided to walk around the island of Gili Gede — a “2 hour walk”…
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Well-traveled chips
Before we left the boat in late June, there were about 11 bags of various and sundry chips that I tried to give away. I didn’t want to leave them on board for two months, as I was afraid of tempting vermin or insects. All of the chips were kinds that I had only bought…
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2 weeks in Japan
On our way back to the boat we stopped in Japan. We visited Disneyland Japan in Tokyo, Warner Bros. Studio Tour to the Making of Harry Potter in Tokyo, and Universal Studios Japan in Osaka. Tomu, Jade, and Riki went on all the scary upside down backwards rollercoasters at USJ. Luz wanted to, but she…
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For Harris with love
oh harris you were on your way solo hiking the JMT you were bummed to only get a nobo, or northbound, permit and then i saw online that you hadn’t picked up your food caches and you hadn’t pressed the SOS button on your In Reach device where were you? what happened? and the next…
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