UPDATE: After a great season cruising the Sea of Cortez, crossing the Pacific to the Marquesas and spending time there, the Tuamotus, Tahiti and other south pacific islands, I will be heading to New Zealand in mid-November for cyclone season.

March 2024, I plan to resume visiting more islands but don’t have a definite plan, yet.

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After a career in the high tech world, I semi-retired several years ago with the plan to travel on my boat and see the world. So far, the plan is working well and I enjoy sailing and exploring new places. After cruising the Florida keys, the east coast of the US and Long Island Sound, I headed to the Caribbean to check it out and never came back.

Now, I would like to see more of the world and have moved up to a larger sailboat to cross bigger oceans.

I am relatively fit and enjoy an active lifestyle including scuba diving and hiking. In the past, I've put my boat in storage during hurricane season and spent time in the deserts of the US west.

usually cleancomfortablevery safeshare experiencevisit remote placesseek adventurelive off the grid

I've been living on a sailboat off and on since 2009. Always considering safety first, I like a relaxed, fun environment and exploring new places/

After cruising the east coast of the US from Florida to Long Island Sound, I sailed to the Caribbean and the boat never came back to the US. In 2013, I decided I wanted to leave the Caribbean for longer voyages and had a semi-custom blue water boat built. After commissioning the new boat in 2014, I cruised the east coast again then went back to the Caribbean and eventually to Panama and transited the canal. My cruising plans had to be put on hold for a couple of years so I brought the boat to San Diego.

I am now ready to continue voyaging and am in the process of getting the boat ready to leave San Diego around the 1st of the year with the intent of heading south to the Sea of Cortez, cruise there for a few months then head across the pacific to the Marquesas and spend a lot of time island hopping in the south pacific ducking south as necessary to avoid monsoon season.

The boat is a 2014 Passport 545 Aft Cockpit and is explicitly designed and outfitted for blue water voyaging with state of the art electronics (GPS, AIS, HD Radar,auto pilot, SSB, VHF, sat phone, etc.). Since I prefer anchoring out most of the time, the boat is pretty self-sufficient with 550W of solar panels, a backup diesel generator and Cape Horn Xtreme watermaker. There is AC but that requires either being in a marina or running the generator. Because the boat is well-ventilated with several fans, the AC usually isn't needed even in the tropics.

clean & tidyeasy-goingenthusiasticfit & healthytravel light (little luggage)eager to learn & workopen mindedenjoy cookingdon't mind cleaning

All that is required is a love of sailing and voyaging and being comfortable on a boat. Most of the duties will be standing watch, helping with cooking and keeping the yacht ship-shape.

I like to have fun and enjoy the occasional happy hour but this is definitely not a party boat. Illegal drugs are not acceptable.

So if you're trying to build time or just want the experience of a longer sailing passage, let me know.