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San Salvador

I woke up for my watch at 4:00 A.M. to find us in the lee of San Salvador with an eight knot wind on the beam and the boat slowly progressing at one to two knots. I was sitting at the helm in the dark, studying the glow from the lights of Cockburn Town while [...]

Donate to the Children of Ile A Vache

Welcome to the Kai Ohana Fund Raising Page for Ile A Vache, Haiti 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 [...]

Haiti (Shortened Article)

In 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 city [...]

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 [...]