Navire's blog

Hi all

If you want to follow our adventure up to the Pacific in 2014, subscribe to this blog. In brief, our plan is to head to Fiji and cruise there for five months, then sail north in October to avoid the South Pacific hurricane  season, travelling to The Marshall Islands, 7 degrees north of the equator, via Tuvalu and Kiribati.

The Marshall Island stop is our decision time. Options are to go to Canada, where David is from, or Asia, or to continue cruising in the Pacific Islands.

Our favourite option is Canada, which has some challenges. It is a 5000 mile trip, a 50 day sail. Are we up to this? I guess we won’t know till we try. Although more latterly our concern has been about how safe the seawater is. It could be toxic, deadly even, as a result of the Fukishima incident. We can’t carry enough drinking water for 50 days, and would have to make fresh water on the way. The seawater we draw from could be tainted with lethal strontium. It is hard to get a definitive answer on the toxicity of the ocean from the internet.

There won’t be any posts for a while till we are finalising our preparation.

Love to have you along for the ride