Captains (b)log
18 Sept 2025
By Victoria Hardy (ship's cook) Alongside again in sunny Avatiu, Rarotonga, the ship hooked up to shore power, and the crew relishing hot showers in the shore facilities – our first impression of the Cook Islands was a good one. On day o…
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28 Aug 2025
By Victoria Hardy Mangareva Three days of sailing west from Pitcairn brought us to the main island of the Gambier Islands group of French Polynesia. To the delight of the crew, upon checking into Mangareva, the local gendarme suggested t…
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23 Jun 2025
A Crossing Marked in Salt and Tradition Somewhere in the deep blue vastness of the Pacific, a faint line stretches across the chart, a thin, invisible boundary that has divided sailors for centuries. The Equator. The crossing of that line…
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5 Jun 2025
By Ariunsanaa Ganbaatar 1 – Clove hitch on the Marlin spike It was 9 days since we left anchorage, it was also 9 days we continued with the 6-hour shifts. I was on the 12-6 watch. It was tough on all of us, we were so tired, at times it…
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11 Mar 2025
The yard period has demanded a huge effort from both the Neptun team and from the shipyard. Fortunately, work is progressing steadily, and the last two months have given new life onboard. When in the middle of the chaos and mess of a shi…
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6 Jan 2025
After clearing out of El Salvador, the crew enjoyed a swim call off the coast of Guatemala before making its first stop in Chiapas, just across the Mexico-Guatemala border. In Chiapas, the crew made a trip inland to San Cristobal where t…
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