The personal account of a man and woman who circumnavigated the Pacific --- alone in a thirty five foot sailboat.
Chapter 1: An Idea
As with most grand schemes out plan was simple. We wanted to sail a small yacht from our home in San Francisco to Japan via the islands of the South Pacific, and then return to the United States on the great circle northern route by way of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and finally the Queen Charlotte Islands on the west coast of Canada. The proposal called for 19,000 miles (35,188 km) of sailing on a roughly oval shaped course that followed the sweep of the major surface currents of the Pacific. During the nineteen month trip we would call at some seventy five ports and sail in both warm and cold waters. In the south Pacific our biggest hazard would be coral reefs. In the North Pacific our difficulty would be fog.
