Cowabunga 2013-2014

We arrived to New Caledonia after a pretty average one and a half day trip from Vanuatu… cold, torrential rain and big wind shifts was

We had been pretty keen to get to Fiji for some time. It’s warm waters are a welcome change from the colder waters of Tonga.

We pushed the boat hard to get to Customs on Friday afternoon before they shut up shop for the week. We arrived just in the

A video put together by Jono of our last couple months aboard S/Y Cowabunga

Tahiti was great… we got accustomed to city life once again. Bars, clubs, restaurants – all the things we’ve been deprived of for months. French

Jorel had finally arrived from Brisbane. After 3 flights, a taxi ride from a drunk local, and a 20nm boat ride across the atoll of

The Journey of S/Y Cowabunga from Trinidad, north through the Caribbean chain, through the Panama Canal, across the equator and onto the Galapagos Islands. To

After a 17 day passage at sea, all one wants to do is celebrate, drink some rum, and sleep undisturbed for more than 4 hours.

The leg from the Galapagos Islands to the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia is one of the longest stretches of open ocean in the world.

After a night of celebrations on board the boat, the officials came out in the morning to do our paperwork. And they came in force.

No sooner had we arrived in Panama, the boat was pulled from the water so we could knock off some things on the “To Do”

We left Bonaire one morning, bound for the San Blas Islands in Panama. This group of Islands lay some 650nm away, having us follow the

So we found ourselves in the British Virgin Islands, or better known as the BVI’S. This territory of Britain could better be described as a

We had been on the move quite a lot of late. Partly due to the fact Australia Day was approaching, and we didn’t want to

With crew changeovers to be done, we caught a ride across the island to the airport in the south of Saint Lucia. Once Webbo and

So after our time in Sandy Island, we checked out of Grenada and sailed the short distance to a new country, St Vincent and the

Up until this point it has all been work work work. Now, its time to put down the tools, sit back and admire everything that

With a few weeks until first friends arrived, we spent a lot of time exploring nearby anchorages which provided some sort of escape from the

So, once again, we quit our respective jobs in search of a new adventure. Bucko spent the last few months working as a receptionist for