Keith and Crew,

It sounds like you’re having a wonderful time on your voyage so far. I do have a question in regards to transoceanic travel. Is there some type of notification service that you use to advise you of any areas of the ocean that are temporarily off-limits? I ask in response to the missile test that occurred off of Kauai on Thursday morning. I know that an area of several hundred square miles had to be cleared of all vessels prior to the launch of the target missile.

I wish you all the best!

Lance

Hi Keith,

I came accross your site via BYM (Boats, Yachts and Marinas) News, an daily email service for world wide marine industry news. At 52 I am just slightly younger than you, however, my wife and I plan to retire in about 5 - 8 years (our boys will be both in college and out of the house) sell our main residence and move onto a boat and begin our adventure. My wife and I are avid boaters and love to cruise. We presently own three boats, a Sea Ray aft cabin which we cruise with our two boys, a center console offshore fishing boat and a 17 foot inshore fishing boat.

Obviously, owning three boats, I am not much of a financial genius, nor do I care to be. By the time we start our adventure we will be debt free, own a coastal home in Florida and have a small income that we believe will suffice for our fairly humble needs.

What interests me and I would like to hear more about in your postings is how you manage negotiate local visa and official visitation laws, money exchange, communication issues, the daily problems and solutions of overseas travel via a boat?

Anyway, may you have fair seas and a following breeze …

be good,

Captain Mark

A-Hoy there, Keith.

I am enjoying your Global Adventure so much! Just want to correct your pronunciation of one of the islands, Majuro: It’s Mah-jure-oh. Accent is on jure.

Robert L. Blake, my husband, now deceased, spent a couple years there during WW2, supervising the construction of Navy built air fields…….charting them out…….pouring cement, etc. He was a Seabee Navy Lieutenant and Master Civil Engineer……graduated from the University of Arizona.

From his letters during the war I came to know the Marshall Islands, especially Majuro and Kwaujalein, quite well. From my standpoint I am very excited to learn what you are going to tell us next Sunday, and I am alerting my two sons, Buckley James and Scott to tune in to you ……prepared to be thrilled to know that the location where their father helped to defend our country by building air fields may be the exact location of our Missile Intercept Practice today. So exciting!

This is historically wonderful of you to teach us on your way along ….on the Global Adventure.

Thank you!

Pae Blake Eaton.

Keith,

Sorry to hear about your departure delay, but that’s cruising. One cruiser once said, ” We don’t have a schedule, and we’re sticking to it.” At least you get to spend some more time w/ your family.

It would be great if you should give a total of engine hours, genny hrs, and fuel consumption after each leg. For those of us planning to follow in your wake it would be very helpful.

Fair winds, and cheap diesel,

David ( your twin)

Keith,
You were my dock neighbor (B-dock end tie - Kona Kai)for a short period. I have a 38′ North Sea Trawler (”Cloud Nine”). I read about your adventure in the Business Journal. Good Luck. I am in the commercial real estate management business and am living vicariously through your travels!

Good Luck ….

Don Schaefer