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Welcome !

Hi.  We're Jeff and Gail  and moved aboard Sea Witch, our Liberty 458, in 1992.  We departed from Marina Del Rey, CA in 1996 for a warm-up cruise to Alaska and then in 1997, headed south to Mexico and beyond.  From there, we spent 14 months in Mexico, visited Guatemala, Costa Rica, a bit of Panama and then the Galapagos before joining the Coconut Milk Run - Marquesas, Tuamotus, Tahiti/Moorea/Bora Bora, Rarotonga, Niue, Tonga and New Zealand.  

2000 saw us head to Fiji and Tonga and back to New Zealand.  In 2001, we caught lobsters in Minerva Reef,  stopped briefly in Tonga to catch up with friends, then had a spectacular season in Vanuatu and New Caledonia before heading for Australia.

In 2002, we traveled up the Great Barrier Reef to Darwin, passaged to Indonesia, checked out Komodo dragons, visited Bali, played "African Queen" in the jungles of Borneo to check out the Orangutans, visited Singapore, negotiated the Malacca Straits and rode elephants in Thailand.

2003 saw Sea Witch crossing the Indian Ocean, braving pirates, cruising up the Red Sea, doing land trips in Eritrea, Sudan and Egypt, transiting the Suez Canal, visiting Cyprus and traveling to Turkey.  And that was only the first 5 months.  We did a long land trip in Turkey and then headed for Greece, Croatia and Venice.  Then, around the boot to Rome and a land trip before heading to Barcelona, Valencia and Gibraltar.  A land trip to Seville before heading for the Canaries and then across the

2004 started with Carnival in Trinidad.  Then a trip up the eastern caribbean and back down to Trinidad in July for what was supposed to be a 3 month refit.  10 months later in May 2005, we headed west. 

2005 A stop in the outer islands of Venezuela and then a month of diving in Bonaire.  A couple of weeks of boat projects in Curacao and then we head west for Panama/San Blas.  We spent a couple months in the San Blas Islands.  Our nephews and their mom's came to visit for a couple weeks.  A couple more Kuna fixes and then onto the Panama Canal.  We successfully transited 3 boats.

Present location:  October 2005 - Departing Balboa, Panama

Plans:  We are now headed up the Pacific coast of Central and North America with hopes of getting to Los Angeles before Christmas.  Keep an eye on our mailing list for notice of a big party in Marina Del Rey.

Most recent update:  October 2005

What's new this update:  Over 160 pictures and a couple of movies/animations of San Blas, Panama and our Panama canal transit.  Newsletter and transit writeup to follow.  We've managed to add over 250 pictures in 2005.

Please report problems and suggestions to webmaster@SailSafely.com.  Do NOT use this address to try and contact us.  We will only pickup mail from this address when we are in port and ready to update our website.

Thanks to everyone that shared their pictures with us.  Some of the pictures on this site came from:  Heartsong III, Outlandish, Poppy 1, Chewbacca, Always Saturday, Imajica, Amy/Kathy and the boys.