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Why for a School on a Remote Haitian Island?
Just prior to the hurricane season of 2008, and despite travel warnings issued by the U.S. State Department, we sailed Kai Ohana, to the island of Ile a Vache off the southern coast of Haiti [...]
Haiti (Shortened Article)
n February 2008, we embarked on an adventure of a lifetime from our home of nearly two years on the island of St. Martin in the French West Indies. We had spent those two years restoring a gaff-rigged ketch that would not only carry us to the four corners of the world, but also provide [...]
Haiti (Full Article)
In the growing morning light we could finally start to delineate, through the marine haze, the profile of the island that we knew had been there all night, but whose presence had been eerily absent on the horizon. Though we could see the landmass on the chart plotter, there had been none of the [...]
St. Thomas
When we arrived in St. Thomas I wasn’t doing so hot. It only took a few hours to get there from Jost Van Dyke, but that didn’t matter. It was only my second time to be out on the ocean with no islands to block the swell so I got sick once again. After we [...]
Joste Van Dyke
e actually hadn’t intended to go to Jost Van Dyke at all, most of the crew had already been there at the Bubbly Pool on a forfeited race boat during race week at Nanny Cay, but we met a gentleman in the boat yard who changed our minds. Kevin Gray, the Project Director for The [...]