{"id":312,"date":"2018-01-26T15:31:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T01:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svbellamarina.eureka-apps.com\/?p=312"},"modified":"2019-09-17T16:16:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T02:16:54","slug":"cruising-in-the-hawaiian-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/svbellamarina.com\/2018\/01\/26\/cruising-in-the-hawaiian-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruising in the Hawaiian Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At anchor in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu<\/p>\n
We’ve been living and sailing in Hawaii for more than a year now. Petter and I moved to Oahu in October 2016, after finishing up our jobs in San Francisco and taking a little cross-country motorcycle trip<\/a> from San Francisco, California to Alexandria, Virginia where we have family. We left the red Ducati Multistrada with his brother and flew back to San Francisco, then Hawaii.<\/p>\n Petter had already single handed<\/a> Bella Marina from San Francisco to Ko Olina<\/a>, Oahu the year before, and we re-joined our floating home in Paradise and got to work cleaning and organizing it. Most of our ‘stuff’ was moved back to the boat from the Sausalito apartment, minus some heavier winter clothes, riding gear and the yellow Ducati 999 which were left in our trailer, conveniently parked at our old apartment.<\/p>\n We got the opportunity to join dear friends from Seattle on Maui for Thanksgiving 2016, and decided to sail over instead of catching one of the easy inter-island flights. The trades were blowing hard and we had a rather bouncy sail over in 35 knots of wind and confused seas in the channel between Oahu and Molokai. Lesson 1 of sailing in Hawaii: the trades can be unpredictably strong at any times, the channels accelerate the winds and the waves, and the offshore sailing can be rougher than the idillic images of palm trees swaying in the gentle (leeward) breeze will suggest. The lesson was learned, and the 2017 Thanksgiving was spent on Big Island with the same friends after an easy 45 minute flight on Hawaiian Air.<\/p>\n Looking back at 2017, we spent most of our time building our new yacht tech company and shipping our yacht management product, Quartermaster<\/a>. We’re having a blast and truly enjoying combining our biggest passions, boating and technology. If you are a boater, check it out<\/a>, we think it’s pretty awesome!<\/p>\n We also took some time to cruise around the Hawaiian islands, in particular Oahu, Maui, Lanai and Kauai. If I were to sum it up in a phrase, I would say cruising in Hawaii is challenging but rewarding.<\/p>\n