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KALEIDOSCOPE OF MY LIFE

Posted on November 16, 2022November 22, 2022

TURKEY - feels like a century ago. After five solo flights, three tandem flights, and a quiz on lenticular clouds in the troposphere, I get a license to fly under supervision. I take one last tandem flight before heading to the airport. The air is white with fog, but I can see the compass rose …

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Hi y’all. I made a new YouTube video. It’s 3 m Hi y’all. I made a new YouTube video. It’s 3 months of boat work in Hawaii reduced to 19 minutes. (Link in bio) 

1- me dancing in the yard 
2- me re-bedding my jib track 
3- getting interviewed by one of the guys in the yard about my solo crossing 
4- me & @yogi__monster re-bedding my prisms 
5- opening up my boat blisters with a grinder 
6- my boat neighbor tells me I look like a sperm cell 
7- using a hacksaw to make some screws shorter 
8- more boatyard dancing 
9- had to climb my mast like 20 times to repair stuff. Me talking about how tired I am beneath it. 
10-I learned how to anchor right before I left for Hawaii but I forgot how by the time I made it across the ocean, so this is me practicing anchoring right after I repaired my broken rode. 

#boatlife #boatrepair #oceancrossing #sailboat #boatyard #repairs
Hi y’all. I made a new YouTube video. It’s 3 m Hi y’all. I made a new YouTube video. It’s 3 months of boat repairs in Hawaii reduced to less than 20 minutes. (Link in bio) 🌈⛵️ #sailboat #sailboatrepairs #refit #boatyard
I am a woman ruled by the moon, just like the sea, I am a woman ruled by the moon, just like the sea, and when I’m offshore I have as many moods as she does. 🌙 Here are various scenes of me offshore in all of my moodiness. 

1-Jibing when the wind is chill. I set my windvane on the other side, unlock my helm, jibe with the wheel, release the working jib sheet, crank in the lazy. 

2- I turn my cabin into a disco sometimes 

3- Shaking my reef 

4- Crying because the sunset is so beautiful

5- Babe, this is where I sleep when I’m underway

6- This is what I look like when I haven’t slept and I’ve been hand steering for 36 hours. 

7- On calm days I can sloth around in the cockpit with a blanket and a book 

8- When I have a lot of built up energy, I shake around like a shaker 

9- Juniper charging through the sea 

10- I get lonely at sea, I miss human voices the most 

#sailing #offshore #ocean #solosailing #sailinginstagram
Cyclone Judy & Kevin kicked up the sky as they ble Cyclone Judy & Kevin kicked up the sky as they blew past Fiji. This is what I wrote when Judy came & I was on a mooring in Musket Cove: There is heartache in the wind, the sky is made of stones & my boat is a foreign planet. The edges of Cyclone Judy are thrashing all around and Cyclone Kevin is hot to trot on her tail. Judy has worked her way up to a category 4 and I’m clinging onto a mooring ball in Musket Cove, trying hard not to blow away. The atmosphere is untamed, ferocious, precarious- like an escaped criminal coming at you, and the wind has been screaming at us so hard that nobody has left their boats for two days straight. 

On top of it all there are squalls and when they come it’s like I’m riding a bucking beast in a blizzard. Everything shakes-  the wind howls, the rain daggers, the world goes whiteout, the birds sing a mad song, and my planet flies and jerks and twists. Everything feels and sounds like it’s on the verge of breaking, even me. I mean like my little bimini looks as if it’s about to rip right off and my dinghy keeps flipping over on it’s side and I’d be a fat liar if I told you that I’m not scared of the squalls, I’m freaking terrified. I miss the smell of dry earth and long for the glow of stars and I don’t know if I can endure another night of these squalls alone. I’m considering hiring someone form the village, perhaps the son of a chief, to sleep onboard. 

1- Cyclone Kevin spinning past Fiji 
2- Juniper shaking in a squall captured by @sailingnv 
3- Me lying on the settee & burying my head in Barbarian Days 
4- Squall as seen from my cockpit 
5- Me on the radio responding to a weather report from the man who manages the moorings in Musket Cove 
6- Sometimes I feel like a hermit crab hiding out in my little seashell 
7- The rain hitting hard 
8- I got hit by a big wave when I sailed in between cyclones from Musket cove over to Denarau. It popped cabinets and drawers open & my knifes went everywhere 

#sailing #fijiislands #cyclone #squall
Hi y’all. I’m finally editing 3 1/2 years of s Hi y’all. I’m finally editing 3 1/2 years of sailing footage. In 2019, @samholmessailing and I both sailed solo from California to Hawaii, me on a 34 ft. boat and him on a 23 ft. We met up in the Ala Wai Harbor on Oahu and sailed together over to Kauai aboard Juniper. Along the way we talked about our transpacific crossings, cooked, had a bowline tying contest, made music out of plumbing pipes, talked to a sea lion, and explored the bay of Hanalei. Here are some scenes from the journey. Watch the whole adventure on my YouTube channel (link in bio). I’ll be posting a new video next week of me doing a month load of boat projects to prepare for my sail to French Polynesia. 

1- Me & Sam chatting about our journeys
2-Hard on the wind 
3-Making noise out of my spare plumping pipes 
4- Me talking about my fears
5- Dancing on anchor in Kuai 
6- The bowling tying contest 
7-chilling in the saloon 
8- Shampoo Ginger- you can clean all of your bits with this plant 
9- Me cleaning my bits while underway and I obviously don’t know the words to that song 
10- Sam and I both made friends with a lot of seabirds 

#sailing #offshore #hawaii #adventure #pacificocean
I’ve seen the sun set and rise a total of 50 tim I’ve seen the sun set and rise a total of 50 times while sailing alone in the middle of the ocean. I don’t think I’m going to get to the end of my life and regret that. Do what you dream to do. And remember, nobody has to believe in your dream but you! 🌈 ☀️ #sailinginstagram #sailingoffshore #sunsetlovers #sunsets #pacificocean #southpacific

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