I spent 2025 crossing the Pacific aboard SV Open Range. Backstory here. A great summary here. And more of the origin story here!

Our route and blog

Zoom out to see the whole route! Blog posts sprinkled along the way.

 

Our Instagram!

The best two days of boat ownership are the day you buy it and the day you sell it, or so the adage goes. We just sold Open Range, and I can’t say I agree. Watching the her change hands in New Zealand from the other side of the planet, melanc
Our front yard for the last couple of weeks has looked a little different than the open sea! While Open Range is safe in Opua harbor, meet Lucy, our 2009 Nissan Urvan: a diesel, stick-shift mule who has been dutifully hauling 2 salty sailors and 4
NZ so far!!🌲 ⛰️ 🇳🇿 Hut hikes, champagne sailing, dolphins, sheep, rivers, islands, friends, and loooottts of projects! So happy to be up here in northland 🙌🏼
We had the opportunity this month to briefly come home to the states for some very special weddings, and reuniting with friends and family was a reminder of how lucky we are to have such amazing people in our life 🫶 When we cast off our lines in Sa
Sharing boat life with best friends is about as sweet as can be!! In 5 short days, we hiked, we spiked, we kava’ed, we danced, we fun trained, we sevusevu’ed, we rugbyed, we sailed, we stargazed, we freedove, and ohhh baby did we laugh. S
Eastern -> Western Fiji 🏄🏼 🫧🌱🥥🩵🧜🏼‍♀️ Surfing out our own Barbarian Days and watching pros get housed at Cloudbreak has been a dream! - #surf #cloudbreak #namotu
Vanua Levu via Jimny 🚙 From remote villages to quiet hikes to bustling Labasa, our day exploring by land did not disappoint!
We’re such big fans of canyons on land, we had to find them underwater too ⛰️🪸 Unreal soft coral in Fiji, and critter friends from nudibranchs to mantas! Swipe to see how happy Jack was about the healthy coral 😁 📍 Rainbow Reef and Kadavu
Some of our favorite smiles from Tonga 🥰
We do a lot of searching: for wind, for waves, for empty anchorages. But that morning’s search? Whales. There’s nothing like the feeling of being underwater, your chest vibrating with whalesong. But the moments in the morning light on Ke
Kenutu Island: one of our favorite places in Tonga 🐋 The uninhabited ridge is the barrier between detonating seas and turquoise lagoon, jagged, seismically lifted coral standing up against a lifetime of pounding trade swell from the east. When we