The Bird attack I was sailing from Nuku Hiva towards Fiji and evening had produced a beautiful sunset. Sunrises and sunsets are two of the most beautiful time of day and only one other phenomenon competes and that's on a moonless night with the stars unaffected by light pollution sparkling to make magic. On the boat I have a sun cover that I use to protect me from the sun when Im on the open seas and it works ok and this forms part of my story today Well when sailing thousands of miles from the nearest land I often get hitch hikers in the form of very tired birds and I'm very tolerant of them so long as they stay away from the wind generator blades and my solar panels but I mostly know that's asking a bit much especially the solar panels being that they are flat surfaces that birds can land on and they aren't quite as rocky as the lifelines. Sometimes because I am usually quite tolerant I carry the ones that are so tired to the front of the boat and place then o...

  New Adventures 2026 no 3 After Hiva Oa the first test sail was to Tuaotha island and that was a very pleasant place to be fixing things in exotic places I met up with Sabine and Jochen on Josa in the bay and we had a few evenings together with great conversation and her fruit breads and other treats. They introduced me to new software to keep track of sailors in the bays you are in so you can keep connecting (No Foreign Land) After realising I wanted to try my second shakedown sail sooner than later I decided to prepare for it and planning started for the 100mile cruise from there to Nuku hiva because that was where Steve and his son Henry were going to meet up with me to sail to Tahiti on the 4 th of April and then fly home to USA on the 20 th Well I set off with Joas taking photos which you can see below I left at 4 pm so it would be a night sail and to be sure I arrived in the morning in daylight Sailing was going beautifully until around 3am a very serious Squ...