Pam: The last entry had Jim making the anchorage at Ai Creek in Havannah Harbour under sail with no wind – a great feat. Unfortunately the dead calm preceded a change of wind to veering between north and west and rapidly increasing. So yesterday morning, with the engine at least partially fixed, we motored further […]

Pam: Yesterday we yet again set sail out of Port Vila heading round Devil’s Point and back up the west coast of Efate. The charts show rough water off Devil’s Point and for a couple of hours there was a fair swell. At least there was a bit too much for the new crew who […]

Hello everyone. For the last 3 days Jim and I (Pam) have been totally caught up in the 2007 Vanuatu Ocean Swim. The swim itself takes place on the Saturday morning but is preceded by welcome cocktails, swim clinics and a carbo loading dinner and followed by a post swim breakfast with local entertainment and […]

Hello everyone Not all our readers are yachties – so “a bottom job” needs explanation. It has nothing to do with the state of Jim’s backside but everything to do with the state of Intention’s bottom. A “bottom job” is shorthand for taking Intention to a boat yard and having her hauled out of the […]

Cathie is all packed and ready to desert the ship. Its been a leisurely morning after my real birthday dinner last night at the only Japanese in town. The 3 musketeers went ashore with a little difficulty in landing the dinghy. We found ourselves at the maritime police dock and were greeted by a most […]

Today is Friday 6th June and Cathy’s birthday, so she was woken up to the gentle strains of a gift CD of a local string band and told to show-a-leg as we had to upanchor and reanchor off the Origin Energy HQ. We made it to Origin Energy for the agreed 7.30 am start and […]

Yesterday Pam woke up early and tiptoed around her slumbering fellow crew to make her customary early morning cuppa. She put the kettle on and returned a few minutes later and to her horror found the water stone cold. The second thermacouple had gone caput – no cuppa tea. We decided no use abandoning our […]

Hello to all, Yesterday we anchored in the calm water of Ai Bay very close to where the American and later the Australian Survivor reality TV show was shot. The full moon rose while we were listening to a CD of Hawaiian music. Nothing but the reflections of of the moonlight on the water and […]

Anchored at Ai Creek. S 17 degrees 36.3 min. E 168 degrees 14.6 min in 15 meters of water. Hi ho, INTENTION set off today on her Vanuatu adventure, Skipper Jim with crew Cathy and Pam from Australia, but first we need to backtrack as the last entry on this blog. It had Intention half […]