Ocean Voyages

Summer 2024	Vancouver Island Circumnavigation	The Vanbam. An exciting cruise counter-clockwise around Vancouver Island. Exploring the Broughtons and most inlets on the Pacific side. Including a wonderful rendezvous at Bamfield with four other multihulls with many of my mates from BCMS aboard. Explore the excitment on YouTube
Summer 2018	Haida Gwaii Adventure	An awesome and challenging sail from Maple Bay on Vancouver Island, northward, past Cape Caution, around the north end of Banks Island and across Hecate Strait to Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands). Burnaby Narrows in Haida Gwaii has the densest proliferation of biological organisims in Canada. Check it out on YouTube
2012 – 2023	Desolation Sound	Multiple voyages to the beautiful and mystical coves and harbours around Desolation Sound.
Summer 2015	Princess Louisa Inlet	A mystical voyage to one of the most beautiful places in the world.
Summer 2010	Malaysian Expedition	Riding Cool Bananas from west-coast Malaysia accross the South China Sea to Borneo. It was a blast. Check this shakey 2010 video on YouTube
Spring 2008	Ventura to Vancouver	I love bashing my way up the west coast of North America. Harbour hopping with a constant eye on the weather forecasts. Chuck Patterson did a pretty cool video to commerate the voyage. Check it out if you have 15 minutes. YouTube
Winter 2008	Ensenada to Ventura	After picking up Mustang Sally from Dockwise, a great weather window invites us to press northward.
Winter 2008	New Zealand to Mexico	Dockwise transport carries Mustang Sally back to North America.
Winter 2006	Tonga to New Zealand	1000-mile passage south to New Zealand to escape the tropical storm season.
Fall 2006	Nuie to Tonga	The Kingdom of Tonga has three main island groups. We sailed through them all.
Fall 2006	Cook Islands to Nuie	Nuie is a lonely but beautiful outpost in the South Pacific: smallest country in the world and clearest water in the world.
Fall 2006	French Polynesia to the Cook Islands	We sailed from Bora Bora to the Cook Islands , visiting the atolls of Aitutaki and Palmerston .
Summer 2006	French Polynesia	Our passages through the Marqueses, the Tuamotu and the Society Islands took us to some of the most beautiful places on the planet.
Summer 2006	Galapagos to Polynesia	3000-mile South Pacific passage to Polynesia — a 21-day crossing.
Summer 2006	Ecuador to Galapagos	Rolling over huge but slow Pacific swell, it’s a quick crossing to Darwin’s inspiration. The Galapagos Islands made a big mark on us.
Spring 2006	Panama to Ecuador	900-mile upwind and up-current bash across the equator to Bahia Caraques, Ecuador — all to become shellbacks and wash away the grimy pollywog past.
Spring 2006	Central America Cruise	Jumping over the Tehuantepec to enjoy Guatemala and El Salvador . We zoomed our way through Nicaragua and the Papagayos winds to beautiful Costa Rica , then on to the islands of Panama and the canal.
Fall 2005 & Spring 2006	Mexican Cruise	Mexico, beautiful Mexico — how we loved you so. The Baja, beautiful and remote, and the mainland, so exotic and lovable.
Summer 2005	White Rock to California	Shakedown leg for our around-the-world trip. For all the gory details click here.
2004	Side Trip to Portugal	We enjoy a 600-mile sail from Cascais (west of Lisbon), Portugal, to the Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar), sailing on the beautiful Moni Moni (a brand-new Fountaine Pajot Lavezzi 40) with Captain Dan Penner and owner Mary Ann Mustonen.
Sept. 2003	Juan de Fuca Romp	After a long weekend of partying at Garrison Bay on San Juan Island, we explored the entire north coast of the Olympic Peninsula.
Summer 2002	Van Isle Circumnavigation	A trip to Alaska turns into a trip round the island. A better voyage few get to enjoy.
June 2001	Puget Sound Puttering	Admiralty Inlet and shadowing the boomers in Hood Canal.
May 2000	West Coast Bash	We get ocean hardened on a tough 1000-mile beat from San Diego, California to White Rock, British Columbia. More details in 1000 Miles to Weather in a Reaching Machine .
Dec. 1999 – Jan. 2000	Tropical Delivery	We hire Tony Elsdon to move Sally from Houston, across the Gulf of Mexico, through the Panama Canal, and northwest to San Diego.
Oct. 1999	Down the Ditch	Port Aransas to Houston, Texas.
1996	Guadeloupe to Texas	Shane Demmer of San Antonio purchased the yacht and hired a crew to move her across the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico to Mustang Island.
1990	France to the Caribbean	The boat was sailed from the factory in western France to Guadeloupe in the Caribbean. Not much is known about this voyage.