He was 3 weeks early, but everything went well and he is growing steadily from his initial weight of 3.5 kg (almost 8 pounds).
He sounded as healthy as he looks in this picture with Becca when he was a few minutes old.
The overall route is shown here, and included a couple of passages of over two weeks, several of 1-3 days and of course many day sails.
The pages in this list follow our travels in rough chronological order
Tahuata (update 18 Dec 25)
Ua Po (update 18 Dec 25)
Angetau (update 18 Dec 25)
Amanu (update 18 Dec 25)
Hao (update 18 Dec 25)
Raroia (update 18 Dec 25)
Fakarava (update 19 Dec 25)
Aritika (update 19 Dec 25)
Toau (update 20 Dec 25)
Rangiroa to Hawai (update 20 Dec 25)
Hawaii Big Island (update 21 Dec 25)
Oahu (update 22 Dec 25)
Lanai (update 22 Dec 25)
Maui (update 22 Dec 25)
Kauai (update 22 Dec 25)
Passage to Canada (update 22 Dec 25)
BC Coast (update XXX Dec 25)
Around Home fall 2025 (update XXX Dec 25)
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We started 2025 sailing on Hiva Oa in the Marquesan Islands, as we did in 2024.
This shot if from the boatyard before launching.
We would liked to have climbed Mount Temetui, but the heat would have made it very tough
