Any information welcome on SP islands

[Sailing into trouble]

I will be sailing into the South Pacific in 18 months. So any information on areas costs of supplies, booze or advice greatly appreciated.

Plan is to leave Northern BC at the start of July and arrive in the South Pacific (god willing) in august.

[phunphin]

Are you related to Pippi longstockings?

[Sailing into trouble]

I had to look up who pippi was? As far as I can ascertain I am not related. Any particular reason for asking?

[Sailing into trouble]

I had to look up who pippi was? As far as I can ascertain I am not related. Any particular reason for asking?

[Agent_Smith]

So any information on areas costs of supplies, booze or advice greatly appreciated.

Aye, ye be seeking yer local sutler for the sundries, mate. If you wanna splice the mainbrace a now and then, I reckon a jug or two of grog will set you by and by for the journey. A fair bit o' swag will be need to tendered, I reckon, from port to port. Godspeed, old salt!

[kingwilly]

damn, have a good one.

[koman]

Connect with the Bluewater Cruising Assn in Vancouver. I used to attend their meetings. It's full of offshore sailors who have actually been there done that....all over the world. They also have an excellent publication called "Currents" which is full of exactly the kind of information you need...you can get information from people who really what they are talking about....(unlike farang forums in Thailand....)

Look them up at
bluewatercruising.org

[Capex]

Try the blue water sailors website: noonsite.com You should be able to get all the information you need, including Thailand.
Fair winds and good weather.

[IceSpike]

Sounds like an amazing trip.
What type of Sailboat will you use?
Could you bring some Stan Mikita's Donuts?

[Wayne Kerr]

Let me know by PM man where you heading, work in most of the islands, I'm a member at the Royal Suva YC and a few others, happy to help if need be. Booze, man that is one thing the locals ensure stays cheap.

[khmen]

^Just out of interest, aside from the expense of getting to the region how would costs compare to say, South East Asia, in terms of hotels, food, general tourist activities etc?

Basically trying to ask is it a really expensive or fairly cheap region? I've always really wanted to visit Fiji, Micronesia et al but havent seriously researched it yet.

[withnallstoke]

Plan is to leave Northern BC at the start of July and arrive in the South Pacific (god willing) in august.

I found Tethys to be a worthy goddess.
Take a spare cabin boy, and if you still insist on leaving BC, you're late.

[Sailing into trouble]

Crap slight mis print!

July 2013 is my off date.

Need to pay off slight debts and fix the odd leak in the boat!

Some good advice, here and online. I am grateful for all.
I never had any intention of heading for the South pacific. Then a certain mis calculation; so the name Sailing Into Trouble came to be. My Thai Lady is keen to do the trip, I have been careful to keep her away from rough weather, so as to not dampen her enthusiasm. Once we are a few hundred miles offshore it will be too late to turn back.

I have a 1984 Dufour 35. A boat built in that era for ocean crossing. Now they are bigger and far more expensive. So I reckon that I will fit her out as best I can and then head out. It came to me in a blinding flash of impoverishment that if I kept on trying to fit and replace everything that the magazines and books tell you to have and must have. I will 1 never leave the dock 2 need to have a very long cable to a local electricity generating plant and 3 the boat will sink from the wight of must have safety gear!

I always thought I would bugger off back to the land of gentle mists and Guinness. So it came as a great surprise to find out how many bloody islands, countries, with rules and lawless and taxes and shit! It sounds more complicated than staying at home!

But since I have been stupid enough to mention to folk that I am planning this little trip! ( ie my MRs tells everyone we meet) I am sort of looking forward to been scared shitless while puking myself back to 170lbs.

So with 19months to go I am ernest in trying to figure out a safe, reasonable, enjoyable way to LOS. As I dug the car out of its morning snow drift I did sort of think for a moment about the heat, and fresh fruit and cheap rum and warm water, awaiting me in Bora Bora and The Marquises Islands. (The buggers speak French down there!)

In my defence on asking for help here. You have a forum page and I have had several helpful responses. Still not sure about Pipi long legs!

[Mid]

if I kept on trying to fit and replace everything that the magazines and books tell you to have and must have. I will never leave the dock

ain't THAT the truth

[Sailing into trouble]

Met a great NZer stayed at our dock for a couple of years with his 44ft sloop. His boat is a beaut. Caddi for ocean passage maker. But he was an ex millionaire probably still is.

Did some great work on my boat, great advice but his list of essentials and must have gear depressed me. When my boat was built to cross oceans. No eperbs, no gps, no sat phones, limited ssb radios, no electronic charts.

When I started I used to sod off with a flasher depth sounder that said 6 or 60 ft and a VHF radio with 4 channels. So we will get what we can and go. If we make it great if we don't and don't die then great and I learn french

[Sailing into trouble]

^Just out of interest, aside from the expense of getting to the region how would costs compare to say, South East Asia, in terms of hotels, food, general tourist activities etc?

Basically trying to ask is it a really expensive or fairly cheap region? I've always really wanted to visit Fiji, Micronesia et al but havent seriously researched it yet.

Just starting to find that sort of information out.

Shipping is expensive I will pass on information. But I can not see how it can be cheaper.

[sunsetter]

^ his name wasnt charlie by any chance was it? i know of achap that sailing from the uk to phuket, then phuket to koh chang, via samui ill try to find his email address for you

[Sailing into trouble]

No Merv was his name. Did the North Pacific circle route japan alaska down to mexico next year then back across to NZ at some point in the next 5 years. He has been at this for 16 years! Appreciate the email though.

[Sailing into trouble]

Connect with the Bluewater Cruising Assn in Vancouver. I used to attend their meetings. It's full of offshore sailors who have actually been there done that....all over the world. They also have an excellent publication called "Currents" which is full of exactly the kind of information you need...you can get information from people who really what they are talking about....(unlike farang forums in Thailand....)

Look them up at
bluewatercruising.org

The vancouver set up looks promising. The bluewatercruising.org link is a couple with a link page that seems to be set up to help finance them to cruise. neat idea. The Vancouver mob want a couple of hundred dollars up front, they have a "club" in Vancouver which I seldom visit. I'll hope to get a reply to my email. As to what they offer those in the boonies. Cheers for the link. Thought I was the only idiot with this notion.

[Sailing into trouble]

Try the blue water sailors website: noonsite.com You should be able to get all the information you need, including Thailand.
Fair winds and good weather.

Great site very informative. Almost don't know where to start.