Ohana Kai Shoves Off

Tuesday July 12, 2005

Greetings from Ohana Kai,

Whew, off the dock. Today was the day. Three years of planning, hours of dizzying preparation, and all with support from you, we have started our adventure. With a wonderful send off from friends and family we departed at noon after topping off our fuel tanks.
A quick recap on the potential itinerary. We plan to sail from Seattle to Fort Brag, CA., for our annual camping trip for a couple of weeks. We then hope to spend about a month in San Francisco Bay Area, Southern CA, and then San Diego each. Come November 1st we will head into Mexico and cruise warmer waters for about 5 months. We plan to go as far south as Zihuatanejo. Around April 1st we will depart from Puerto Vallarta and cross the Pacific Ocean to the Marquesas Islands. We will continue through the French Polynesian Islands, Samoan Islands, Fiji and end up in New Zealand. We hope to get there in time for their summer months and enjoy their fine country by land.
Currently, Sheila and Jared are watching the boys until Nana and Papa return from their motor home tour of Alaska. (Guess they didn't get enough last year). We may get the chance to hook up with them to have dinner in Port Angeles tomorrow night and then we are on to Neah Bay and when the weather permits, it is out into the ocean blue until we reach Fort Brag. We thought it best to send the boys on land for this first leg as it is some of the roughest stretch of water on the trip.
Tonight we will try to tie up or anchor in Port Townsend and enjoy the first night on the boat.
The web page is up and running. As with everything on the boat, always under construction. Take a peak. www.ohanakai.net You can use it as a link to email us directly, which we be able to access while we are out on the water. We will also be posting daily/weekly journals to the blog site. Use the blog link and sign up to send us comments or emails from the journal entries. We can not access the internet itself from the ocean, but when we are in port we will update the web page with photos and stories at internet cafes. Feel free to forward this on to family and friends and have them email us if they would like to get on the list. If you would like to be removed, please let us know as well.
We hope this letter finds you well,
all our love,
Bruce and Lisa