Sailing Papillon

July 23, 2012, 1926 UTC 09 21.310 S, 130 18.278 W Day 17 Hello, friends. Greetings from the morning of Day 17. As we were warned, lon...

July 17, 2012, 1608 UTC 8 deg 31.595 S, 115 deg 45.228 W Day 11 It is inevitable that, after travelling 1600 NM over ten days and being...

5 22.864 S, 103 40.145 W 875 NM from the Galapagos Hello, friends! Papillon greets you from the wilds of the Pacific ocean. We are on ...

Our time in the Galapagos is rapidly coming to a close. I can tell, because I have a monstrous headache, and wake up in the night wonderi...

People, I've been busy.  Not just because we are in the Galapagos, but because... Ta da! And ta daaa! ...we have surprise vis...

Like many North Americans, my foreign language skills were never the greatest.   It is a sad fact of life that English is the new Latin....

I took 127 photos today.  I know, I have a problem.  And I know this doesn't constitute a proper post, but these are my two favourite pi...

After nine days of (pretty good) passage, the Papillon crew was ready for some action.  First up, crossing the equator.  We anticipate...

Good morning, campers! And hello from 01 20.178 N 8 34.136 W! We are seven days into our run to the Galapagos, and the end is in sight. N...

I spent yesterday day reading Dickens (The Old Curiosity Shop, for those interested). And while I enjoy the gentlemen and his humour, he ...

We did it! We left civilization behind! Yesterday we chugged out of Panama City and made our way to the Perlas. Here we sit, at anchor at...

With all of the excitement of Canal transits and missing toilets and new antifouling paint and and and, I have failed to mention a very ex...