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The Adventures of S/V Amante
Dear Reader,
"Amante" is Spanish and can mean sweetheart or mistress. The mistress in this case is mature but experienced in sea-worldly ways, a 1977 Morgan Out Island 51. Like most mature mistresses, she is a high-maintenance and sometimes demanding broad.
The crew is experienced but thankfully not very mature. The intrepid Captain is John Williams, a semi-retired geophysicist: The Admiral is Vera Williams, who now applies her nursing skills full time to the Captain, who really needs help.
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Here we see the Captain, showing his age; the helpful Admiral/Nurse; and the Mom, who keeps the crew supplied
Amante started its voyage from Corpus Christi in December, 2002. It was a disaster. After getting 100nm offshore she limped back to Corpus needing lots of repair. In the second attempt she barely made it to Key West, but she did make it. The rest is ongoing history.
This is a work in progress. You might check back from time-to-time as you will often see updates.
We hope this website appeals to a diverse audience. It was intended initially for friends & family, most of whom think port is a kind of wine and knot is just what you tie. It is hoped that it will also prove useful to our sailing friends who may plan to visit a lot of these spots in the future and would like to know stuff like whether you can buy fuel in the Galapagos (yes, and it's cheap), whether you can stay 3 months in French Polynesia (yes, and it's not!), etc.
While writing copy for this we did a lot of google searches for proper names, and in the process found that everybody's sea dog has a sailing web site. Many are more polished than this humble effort and we advise those interested to seek more info, given the many keywords you will find herein.
We hope to chronicle the adventures through the Caribbean someday, but not now. In order to get this website done we'll begin in Trinidad, 2004.
This website is always under construction, so we'll start with just a simple Table of Contents:
Trinidad | Venezuela | Bonaire | Panama | Galapagos | Marquesas | Nuku Hiva | Tuamotus | Tahiti | Moorea | Huahine | Raiatea | Bora Bora | Niue | Tonga | New Zealand | New Zealand Continued | Fiji SE | Fiji NE | Fiji W | Vanuatu S | Vanuatu N | Solomons Central | Solomons West | Pohnpei | Truk | New Guinea | Shortlands | Solomons Continued | More Solomons | Australia | Tasmania | Bundy to Darwin | Indonesia East | Indonesia Central | Indonesia West | Malaysia | Singapore
