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You have stumbled upon a travel blog that chronicles the journeys of two nomadic professionals who live their lives by cycling between working their butts off in science and medicine and goofing around in a boat!
Here you can follow our journey aboard the spectacular 2017 Leopard 48 catamaran The Intrepid Jerry. In Nov 2025 we left the US for the Caribbean and are making our way west toward the Panama Canal, the Pacific Ocean, and beyond!
Below you will find our travel map, blog, and information about our first voyage aboard The Amazing Marvin from 2015-2017.
Happy exploring!
Where is Jerry?
Taravai, Gambiers Archipelago, French Polynesia
Pacific Ocean
Last update: May 12, 2026
Jerry’s Journey:
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Dolphin Brain
Pacific Crossing Day 21. Hand steering Day 7. Less than 200 nm away from Henderson Island. Mel heard dolphins sleep by turning off half their brain at a time so the other half can watch for predators. After a week…
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A Symphony of Calm Arousal
Pacific Crossing Day 10 Tonight’s post is all about the pretty, pretty Pacific. Flattery may get us somewhere. With the engines off after four days of motoring through the ITCZ, it is finally just us and the sea. It’s a…
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Jerry Crosses the Equator!
This morning (April 17), a rainbow burst from a sunshower and pointed the way straight to the equator. It is easy to make the weather at sea magical. The rainbow must have been monitoring the GPS coordinates of Jerry’s chartplotter…
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Load moreJust a quick one to tell everyone that, like all of those Pacific-crossing grizzly bears of yore, we are slowly coming out of our hibernation that was provoked by our recent tough voyage. We walked a whole half-mile in Rikitea yesterday and talked to four people, after which Mel had to go to bed early. She managed to defrost the fridge this morning, so hopefully that means she will finally write the epic post planned about their visit to Pitcairn Island. Meanwhile, here’s a pic from beautiful #Mangareva
Day 2, hand-steering downwind from Pitcairn to Gambiers. This sh$! Is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S. Another short one. The entire crew is mentally and physically exhausted. Waves have improved to 11’ but we can still see gusts up to 30 knots. We are on jib only. The next time you sail downwind and are really enjoying it, give your autopilot or windvane a hug, as it is working its butt off. Hopefully we’ll arrive at Mangareva tomorrow before dark. Check out the bananas we got from the Pitcairnians! Must be a lethal dose of potassium in there! #jerrysailsthepacific #leopardcatamarans #almostthere
