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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?
Offshore, Pacific Ocean, Sailing from Panama to French Polynesia
Last update: April 14, 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 moreDay 1, Pitcairn to Gambiers. Jerry is on the move again! Building seas and wind made the two anchorages at Pitcairn untenable for the next few days, and so they reluctantly had to cut their visit short. They are now hand-steering the 300 remaining nautical miles to the Gambiers. Unfortunately, it is through 25 knots of wind and 13 ft seas. A little info for those curious about hand steering: downwind is surprisingly the suckiest wind angle of all! Our wheel lash is minimally useful now. Jerry was a lot easier to coax in the right direction when we were on a reach. The moonless night makes the constant helm adjustments all the more exhausting.
To give you a sense of the atmosphere on the boat right now, Mel will quote from Matt Bellamy of the awesome rock band Muse, who, when told he was not allowed to swear on a TV show, changed the lines of his song, “Feeling Good”. This line perfectly expresses the crew’s mood right now:
'Forking frickin’ forking farking little forking fecking little frickin’ f*cker, yeah!”
(Mel ironically censored it to keep her feed as ladylike as possible.)
There’s nothing like a good swear word to capture frustration in the face of the elements!
#jerrysailsthepacific #muse #forkthis
Jerry’s crew explored amazing Pitcairn today! Mel will sort through hundreds of photos and videos and post about their spectacular visit later, after a good sleep, but for tonight, here’s a brief video of our “water taxi“ back to Jerry, who was rocking and rolling, but anchored solidly in sand… #jerrysailsthepacific #leopardcatamarans #strangenewworlds
We did not go ashore today, choosing instead to have a “cat” day, where we lay around and sleep on and off like cats! #jerrysailsthepacific
