Turtle Mail

Time for boat jobs - repairs, installations, and cleaning. During our absence, poor Sea Turtle became coated with layers of grimy, dusty di...

After a tiring trip back to Quito Ecuador, we decided to spend a couple of days resting and touring around on the iron pony some more. We ro...

The Huasi Hotel that we were staying at in Old Town Quito (Ecuador) allowed us to store our motorcycle in their lower level garage for $0.50...

Quito lies in a valley oriented north to south. We entered from the south, labouring through stop and go traffic until we arrived in Old Tow...

On the road again... With Ruby (Jordan named her) our little iron pony all saddled up, we started our inland journey today, riding from...

Jordan and I celebrated our 7th anniversary in a unique way. Tripp of the Puerto Amistad Marina held a "crawfish bake" that we at...

We are moored at Puerto Amistad Marina (Bahia de Caraquez) in Ecuador. The town of Amistad has all your basic needs covered, but to do a maj...

Winds throughout the early hours were very light and changeable. Going was slow with a lot of tacking and a bit of back tracking. Started ...

We had a visitor today - 1 lone dolphin. This is unusual as most dolphins travel in numbers in a pod. We also had a wakeup call today. You...

Jordan at bow with breeze blowing We're both amazed at how fully charged our batteries have kept with our two 80-watt solar panels ...

We tacked at 23:45 last night with abating winds, and an hour later there was no wind at all. So we continued in a westerly direction under ...

We've been going generally in the same direction since 14:00 yesterday. But we tacked at 10:30, with sails still balanced. We are sure h...

We tacked to the west shortly after midnight as the winds were now taking us close to land. Sea Turtle is now under balanced sails, giving u...

Yesterday Jordan had a hard time getting caught up on sleep which was unusual as he can generally fall asleep as soon as his head hits the p...

We had horrendous rain today. A real downpour. Storm cells were everywhere and we were both soaked but not cold. It was raining so hard that...

It was calm and the autopilot worked occasionally, but not very often. After doing shifts hand-steering, Jordan finally turned off the motor...

Around 02:00 when it started to rain and I did my quarterly hour check, it was discovered that the autopilot was not working and we were off...

We hoisted anchor from Las Brisas de Amador at Isla Perico (near Panama City) at 08:30 today, under sail, for what we think will be about a ...

As soon as our company left, we needed to get things ready to leave Panama for the passage to Ecuador. First project was to get the boat out...

On July 21st (Jordan's birthday), his close friend Marlow arrived for a week's visit. He rented a car for the time he was here and s...