Posts Tagged Tonga

BACK TO PANACHE: 1 of 3 THE ROAD TO REUNION

I would love to write a blog post for my time in New Zealand, but realistically it’s just not possible. The destination is too beautiful, I have too many good stories and, most importantly, I have too little time at the moment to give the country justice in the space I have here for words […]

Beautiful Disaster: How Panache Finally left Niue with a Newly Repaired Rudder.

I’ve had my fair share of trouble aboard Panache, but nothing quite as somber as my fractured rudder. The accident left me unable to carry on, literally and figuratively. Looking into a mirror I knew I had seen this before, although I barely recognized it through my bearded face. I had seen it in Costa […]