TOKETIE - Sails Away!

In August, 2006, S/V Toketie set out from Victoria, British Columbia and sailed South to Mexico, on to French Polynesia, Niue and Tonga following the well beaten path known as the 'coconut run' to New Zealand. In 2009 we sailed N to Fiji then on to New Caledonia en route to Australia! Toketie is now back home in British Columbia after a long passage via the N Pacific Ocean.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

leavin...on a jet plane....

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sitting in Vancouver airport waiting to board Korean Air flight 072 to Seoul and then on to Nadi, Fiji!  Five months flew by very quickly bu...
Friday, April 23, 2010

S/V Toketie at sea!

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A short video clip of S/V Toketie hove-to in Fiji's Koro Sea.  An 'anticyclone' is a localized high pressure system with extreme...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

"Daydream" gets a bowsprit!

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Fitted the new bowsprit on the Tayana 37 'Daydream'!
Saturday, April 17, 2010

Toketie enroute to New Zealand

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Some more video shot of the passage down to New Zealand from Tonga!  A good 30 knots on the beam makes for good sailing! http://www.youtube....
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

S/V Toketie underway to New Zealand!

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A short video of Toketie on the passage down to New Zealand from Tonga.  The 'squash zone' is an area of strong winds sandwiched bet...
Friday, April 09, 2010

S/V Toketie at sea!

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A short video of Toketie after leaving French Polynesia enroute to Niue, the smallest country in the world!  A mild taste of bluewater cruis...
Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Fakarava Atoll

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The Tuamotus Atolls in the French Polynesian islands has all the charm of a forgotten time.  In this little anchorage we met these children ...
Sunday, April 04, 2010

Taiohae Bay

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The island of Nuku Hiva in the French Polynesian Marquesas is a popular destination and stopover for cruising boats traveling downwind on th...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

S/V Toketie

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRj5uPz22WU .....if you enjoyed Toketie's approach to the equator.....you may like the dolphins that acco...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Toketie on YouTube!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR3KprDrxog A short video taken when we were enroute from Mexico to the Marquesas!
Friday, March 26, 2010

longing....

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I can almost see Fiji!
Saturday, March 20, 2010

Vernal Equinox

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Twice each year, when day and night are of equal length and the sun being vertically above a point on the equator we officially move into ...
Sunday, March 07, 2010

The Tayana refit project!

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....some shots taken in the shed where they are re-glassing the sidedecks....horribly messy dusty environment...the whole boat is covered in...
Friday, March 05, 2010

Tayana bowsprit

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...with floors attached...
Monday, March 01, 2010

Tayana Bowsprit details

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The project takes shape with the tip shaped to which the crans or crance collar is attached to hold the rigging.  The notches will take the ...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

Blog news!

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This is a note to ask all you loyal Toketie blog followers to link our blog site to any other sites you might use, such as Facebook or Twitt...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

The 'DayDream' bowsprit (cont)

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roughed out....beginning to take shape...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Update on the Toketie crew!

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I guess we usually think of this blog as news for the people back home!  But along the way, we have made friends who may be curious to know ...

The Tayana Bowsprit project!

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The old bowsprit with rot throughout the center section!

The Tayana Bowsprit project!

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Clear, edge grain, quarter sawn old growth fir planks from a mill in Sooke!
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Only about 60,000 nautical miles under Toketie's keel...so far....but actively working to add to it! Six years in the S Pacific, living the dream as they say, and now back in beautiful British Columbia!!
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