Jon

Under Cruising Information you'll find great info for sailors following in our wake: A big equipment section, articles on cruising with teens, yacht provisioning and recipes, FAQs, downloadable Track Files plus pages on specific areas like Solomon Islands, Australia and Indonesia. Our Underwater pages showcase our underwater photography, reef life... and scubadiving . Dive sites include GPS locations so others can find these sites as well. We have new dive information on Raja Ampat and Triton Bay, Indonesia. On our Ocelot pages you can see pictures of the original boat plus her layout, specifications and some of the modifications we've made to turn her into an ocean cruiser. More recent pages take you through the details of our major Thai Refit . Our Landfalls pages are divided by ocean -- Caribbean , Pacific , and Indian . They're all about where we've been and what our impressions were. They're as much for land travelers as cruisers. Amanda 'hotspotted' most maps, helping to clarify the geography. We've illustrated the newsletters emailed from the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean . Read about our travels and "passage notes" while at sea. To get our enewsletters you can signup and manage your own subscription. Our mailing list is never shared with anyone. The Flora and Fauna pages document many of the plants, animals, birds and marine mammals we've encountered in our travels. It's organized by geographical regions. to the Hacking Family website with Sue , Jon , Chris , and Amanda on Ocelot , our Kronos 45' (14m) now 48' (15m) Wauquiezdesigned catamaran. We've been on this trip since 2001, sailing from the Caribbean through the Panama Canal, across the South Pacific and the Indian Oceans to Africa, then back to Asia and the South Pacific. There's so much world to see! LATEST NEWS: Sue and Jon are at the NW tip of Palawan, Philippines (the long skinny island that extends NE from the northern tip of Borneo). Since the CV19 lockdown started, we've been anchored in El Nido, a small town that usually gets 5,000 ...Read More