SV Flyer

SV Flyer Crew’s Blog

  • Aloha!

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    Stephen

    Greetings from Flyer, now rafted happily on the Aloha dock at Hawaii Yacht Club in Honolulu. Apologies for this delayed (and probably overly lengthy) posting. We had our hands full in the final week of the passage with some spicy conditions, and arrival here has been a frenzy…

  • Store in a cool, dry place

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    Stephen

    Ha! if only we’d read the instructions before we went sailing.  Good day from the fine yacht Flyer, now securely in the grips of the NE trades, 650nm SE of Oahu. We’re now entering our twelfth day at sea on this passage.  We’ve been a bit quiet lately…

  • Pushing us (and our gear) to our limits.

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    Paul Van Dyck

    Yesterday, the day we crossed the equator, I finally started thinking about fishing again. The wind had died off a little so it would be a bit easier to reel in a fish. BUT, I never expected to hook up to something this big. In the morning I…

  • Equator, round 2

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    Stephen

    Hello from the Northern Hemisphere! Flyer and her crew of four humans and one feline crossed the middle of the planet yesterday just before noon local time at 145 and a half degrees west. As the boys insightfully pointed out, it was really cool to cross the equator…

  • Deep breathing, in the dark

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    Stephen

    Greetings from the fine yacht Flyer, 6 degrees south of the equator and 147 degrees west of the Greenwich Meridian! We departed Rangiroa, French Polynesia on Friday afternoon, two days ahead of schedule. Unlike previous departures, we did not struggle to leave on-time. I’m not quite sure exactly…

  • The Tuamotus

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    Kristen

    And just like that, our time in French Polynesia has come to an end. Yesterday, we sailed out of Tiputa pass at Rangiroa — the largest atoll in the Tuamotus and the only one with a Gendarmerie where you can check out of the country — and pointed…