the crew!!

so here we all are: upper left is Tim, our captain -- he does deliveries and various boat repair work for a living, but this was only his fourth or fifth pacific crossing from hawaii -- a most excellent skipper!! across from him is Liisa, otherwise known as Mouse (she poked her head out of a porthole one day, & David gave her the nickname since she looked just like a little mouse) -- she lives aboard a boat in the same marina Siderno was tied up at in Pearl Harbor, and was a fantastic last-minute addition to our crew. Lower left is David, my watch-mate for the entire trip, virtually attached at the hip for everything except sleeping -- but he's also a former chef, so he organized & cooked almost all our food (I would steer while he was below in the galley). and finally there's me, the official photographer for the trip.

All of us except Liisa actually live alone in our ordinary lives -- so adapting to being in such close quarters with three other people took a bit of effort! but all of us except David also live aboard boats, and we ALL do tons of sailing, so we knew what to expect, and generally all got along fantastically well through the whole two weeks.