Cruise of the Ladybug

Captain Kurt Lorenz and Jamie Orr on the approaches to San Francisco I am just back from a delivery run from Victoria, BC to San Franci...

Sorry to say that we will be taking a break from cruising for a while. We need to go back to work and want to spend more time with our pare...

When we visited French Polynesia en route to New Zealand in 2012, rumours were flying of a German cruiser had recently been murdered and po...

Just received an email from friends, Jos and Logan, who have a boat moored next to Ladybug in McLeod Bay. They attached this picture of the...

I have started another blog to document some of what we are up to outside of the cruising world. It is called "Go The Wrong Way" ...

I am now back in Canada, leaving Ladybug in the capable hands of my friends Jo and Rob in McLeod Bay. Preparing her for her extended stay ...

Limestone Island is well named - for it is almost entirely made of Limestone. Once the site of a quarry, it is now managed by the municipal...

Living on board an ocean going sailboat at a mooring and going to 'work' every morning is loses some of its novelty after the first...

We have had two days of rainy weather - the first very windy also and the second very wet. I managed a quick walk ashore on the first day, ...

Hirakimata as the Maoris call it or Mt Hobson by its English name is the highest peak on Great Barrier Island. A nice day hike can be had f...