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The Cruising Corner - Adventures from our clients enjoying their boats - Click on the name to jump to their adventure. Send us your boating adventures to info@hsyacht.com • Mike Harker - Circumnavigating the Globe • Terry & Michelle on Coastal Passage II • James Fabrick on the "Gecko", heading for the S. Pacific
Updates from Kip and Denise - June 2008 May 26th, 2008: Notes from the first mate:
After 7 months in Whangarei a weather window has arrived and it's time to fuel up and leave for Fiji. Clearing out of New Zealand, we were undersail and heading north to warmer country. As we were sailing along the coast line a distressed call came over the VHF from a small fishing vessel who sent up a flare to show us his position. We relayed to message to the coast guard which soon came to their rescue. We set in for a rather wet crossing with the wind on our beam and occasional splash into the cockpit as we reached speeds of over 9 kts. Overall we had a good passage and a fairly quick one. Seven and half days at sea we motored only 27hrs, and as we got closer to Savusavu we had to slow Adelia down in order to arrive during daylight hours.
May 11th, 2008: Notes from the first mate: May 2nd, 2008: Notes from the first mate: As we quickly approach our departure from New Zealand to start our 2008 cruising season, I wanted to give you an overview of our 2006-07 adventure. We covered 10,003 miles, traveled 1 yr 2 days, visited 8 Countries, 23 Islands. We are looking forward to this season of cruising and we hope you will enjoy it as well.
April 12th, 2008: Notes from the first mate: Well I think it's about time I get this web site active again, it's been quite a busy 4 months, Kip & I both left Adelia for a while and traveled back to the US and I to Canada to visit our family and friends. We enjoyed spending the holiday season back home and loved seeing all our family and friends but it's great to be back aboard Adelia. We also appreciate the hospitality that everyone extended us, and want to thank my sister Marie and our friend Terri in Ventura who opened her home to us for over a month. We've both been back since mid Feb and have been busy cleaning and doing repairs on Adelia. We enjoyed a week at Great Barrier Island with our friend Howard from Ventura and Terry & Violet on the SV Southwind III from Vancouver. Great Barrier Island is a must for those of you who love to hike, especially off season. Howard has left us to tour the South Island & and Kip & I are busy preparing for our next crossing to Fiji which should be around the end of April or early May. I can't believe a year has past since we left Channel Islands Harbor Oct 22, 2006. We have had a tremendous amount of wonderful experiences and made a lot good friends. Now we look forward to spending time with our family and friends in the next few months then returning to New Zealand and do some land and coastal touring. We are happy to take a break especially since the last passage was the toughest one to date. We will keep Adelia in the Whangarei Marina New Zealand until the end of June 2008. From our March 2007 E-newsletter THANK YOU KIP AND DENISE FOR SHARING YOUR ADVENTURES WITH US! You can visit their website to follow their travels at www.adelia-sails.com Mike Harker - Circumnavigatin the Globe Mike has bought a few boats from us. In a Hunter 46 he purchased from us, he crossed the Pacific twice and the Atlantic twice. He sold his Hunter 46 and stepped up to a Hunter 49 in which he circumnavigated the globe in only 12 months. But there is alot more to his story than just that. Mike is also paralyzed below the knee, but that doesn''t slow him down. You can read more about his incredible story at: YouTube - Mike Harker Shake's A Leg around the world!! - An interview told by children. Very cool! TheSailingChannel.TV brings you Wanderlust 3's year-long circumnavigation with skipper/filmmaker Mike Harker. Mike is sailing aboard a brand new Hunter 49 tricked out with the full range of modern electronics and cruising gear. Mike departed in March 2007 from the Miami Sailboat Show. Sail with Mike on an adventure of a lifetime by following Wanderlust3 's photo blog and video podcasts here on TSCtv. http://www.thesailingchannel.tv/wanderlust3/ Terry and Michelle on Coastal Passage II Many of you may have met Terry before. He is one of our skippers and has also been at our sailboat rendezvous events at Catalina. You may have even read their liveaboard story in San Diego Magazine. An incredibly nice couple who are living the dream, sailing on the Pacific coast and currently in Mexico. Here are some updates from their trip. May 28, 2008 - Hello to all from Nuevo Vallarta. Coastal Passage has found a home during hurricane season in Paradise Village Marina, Nuevo Vallarta. We have visited many wonderful locations through out Mexico during the last seven months. Lush tropical anchorages along the Mexico mainland and areas in the Sea Of Cortez that are dry and barren, reminiscent of the Grand Canyon. Coastal Passage performed very well sailing and providing comfort while at anchor. Problems with the systems were few and usually caused by operator error. The experience has been wonderful as well as the many people we have met along the way. We look forward to our visit to San Diego in June and visiting with family as well as friends. We will return to Mexico towards the end of July. Terry & Michelle s/v Coastal Passage II May 6, 2008 - Hola, Hello to everyone from the Sea Of Cortez. We are currently on a mooring in Puerto Escondido, which is just a few miles south of Loreto. Loreto Fest kicks off on May 1 and runs through May 4. It is put on by the Hidden Bay Yacht Club. There are games (bocci ball, over the line, horseshoes, dominoes, card games) food (pancake breakfast, hot dogs, spaghetti dinner and a BBQ put on by a local mexican family). About seventy to ninety boats are here for this event. This is probably as far north into the Sea Of Cortez that we will go this year before we start our journey back south to Paradise Village Marina in Nuevo Vallarta (next to Puerto Vallarta) where we will keep the boat during Hurricane season. We have seen many beautiful places on the Mexican Mainland as well as in the Sea Of Cortez and the friendly local people of the villages have made this cruising season something to remember. We have made many friends along the way and look forward to staying in touch and seeing them in anchorages in the future. We plan to be in Paradise Village Marina in Nuevo Vallarta by June 1st. Michelle will fly to San Diego on June 7th and I will be bringing a power boat up to San Diego departing P.V. June 8th and being in San Diego hopefully by June 15th (weather permitting). We will be in San Diego for about a month and then return to Mexico to do maintenance and a few projects on Coastal Passage. Yes we do have air conditioning aboard, as it gets quite warm with high humidity during the summer months down here. We look forward to visiting with family and friends during our stay in San Diego. Terry & Michelle s/v Coastal Passage II Hi everyone... Hope you are all well... The Captain and his Mrs. Are both doing well in their perspective hemispheres..! Communication for Jim has been a challenge at best.. :-(. Before he left he went to Verizon to get a new international cell phone, and does it work?? Not!! A very long story, but a week and a half later, still no service... Best you don't here it from him as his expletives are rather strong!! Can't imagine, right? He and I are able to touch base via satellite email when all conditions are right and are trying to problem solve this way... The good news is... He is fine and doing well. Here are a few excerpts from him last few emails... *Sunday, June 8th "Today, Sunday, we are confined to the boat, as the Gendarme (French Authorities) are not available to check in. Tomorrow, Monday, we'll check in. Small town here, a road around the bay, chic hotel, variety of stores and stuff, will know more after going ashore. The arrival, going alongside the island before turning into the anchorage, was everything you'd expect on arrival at a South Sea island. Big, rugged, volcanic, and green, with rising cliffs, and lots of black lava rock with plants clinging. ******************************************************* Hi everybody! Just wanted to let you know that I talked with Jim via satellite phone this am.. All is well aboard Gecko.. As you would guess.. ********************************************************** I returned to the GECKO Tues, May 13th, to prepare for our departure
for the So. Pacific. Leaving with me will be Greg (the WIZ) Eric, and
Dave. they arrive Thurs. afternoon. After provisioning and fueling
Fri. I expect to get underway Saturday morning.
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Kip
and Denise had the same dream that many boaters have of moving fulltime
onto their boat and cruising the world; the difference is that they
went for it! They rigged their dream, trimmed it, and were jubilant
when that dream filled with wind and began to sail! Currently Kip
and Denise are aboard “Adelia”, their Jeanneau 49 Deck
Salon, and are cruising their way from the Mexican mainland to the
Galapagos Islands. 
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