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1 June 2011
Clearing into Fiji
Scream arrived in Savusavu, Fiji on Saturday 28 May, 2011.
We took a mooring from the Kopra Shed marina, who assisted us with clearing in.
We were boarded by officials from Health, Customs, and Biosecurity (which appears to be a buzzword for quarantine). They we’re all friendly and courteous. Even with the weekend arrival the process was [...]
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22 May 2011
Cruising on a limited Budget
The base fact of cruising budgets is that most boats spend all of the money that they think that they can afford. From the other cruisers we’ve spoken with, the thinnest budgets for a cruising couple on the smallest ocean-going boats are about $1,000 per month. These boats are eating whatever is cheapest, doing a [...]
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15 May 2011
Tiny Bubbles
The Kiwis are a resourceful bunch, and we’ve discovered that they really enjoy do-it-yourselfing. But, like us, they prefer doing it themselves with a touch of ease. We’ve gotten on the bandwagon of just a couple of the things that the locals are making for themselves.
Our first foray into this territory was my [...]
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20 April 2011
Lubricating your seals
We’ve had a leaky faucet on Scream for about a year now. A leaky faucet is a big deal when your fresh water supply is disappearing and you are a thousand miles from land. So you’ll understand that we’ve tried everything to fix it. We’ve had it apart so regularly that we’ve broken bits that [...]
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16 April 2011
Breaking free from wifi
One thing that you’ll notice when you start cruising is that most cruisers are addicted to the internet. Less so than our land loving brethren, but addicted none the less. Sure we go weeks without internet, but when cruisers are at anchor we stay in the places where there is wifi. You’ll visit all kinds [...]
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4 March 2011
End Piracy
The crew of Scream strongly endorse the Seven Sea Cruising Association’s call to action to end piracy.
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22 November 2010
Our boat’s experience with New Zealand Customs
We arrived in Opua, New Zealand yesterday (November 22, 2010).
Upon arrival we tied to the customs dock, which fits about 15 boats in style. At eight am four customs officers arrived on the docks and started to clear the boats.
New Zealand reserves the right to force arriving boats to haul to have their bottoms cleaned [...]
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22 October 2010
Wind Power
We had always intended to have a wind-powered generator on Scream, but we only recently were able to install one. We bought our aero4gen at Trotac when we were back in Canada, because we wanted to have a little more power to be able to use our various toys, especially our computers. We also wanted [...]
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15 October 2010
Water water everywhere…
Living on the sea, water is the one constant in our lives. The oceans are so vast, it is almost impossible to describe day after day of seeing nothing but water in all directions. At times it feels as if the whole universe is made of water.
But, of course the need for water, [...]
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27 July 2010
Tahiti Yacht Agents
We on Scream are not in the habit of using agents to enter and exit countries. Prior to our arrival in Polynesia we cleared ourselves into and out of every country except one, where we used two different agents both of whom were jerks that ripped us off.
We don’t like agents, but we decided to [...]
