Month: April 2011

Day 24: Landfall!! Anchored in Taiohae Bay, Nuku Hiva!

WE MADE IT!!!!! Nuku Hiva, Marquesas (destination): 0.00000000 nautical miles La Cruz, Mexico (origin): 2713 nautical miles The S/V Sudden Stops Necessary crew at anchor in Taiohae Bay, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas islands!! Some of the crew are sporting new looks! We hove-to overnight in the lee of Ua Huka and this morning at 3am local…

Day 18: Swam across the Equator and three shellbacks are born!

All three of us pollywogs swam across the equator tethered to the boat with spinnaker sheets! At 11am (17:00 zulu) we jumped into the pacific ocean at position 00*00N 131*01W. The water was amazing, blue blue blue.. Couldn’t see the bottom, probably because it was 5 miles deep! After the crossing all three lousy stinky…