Welcome aboard the sailboat “Astarte” (pronounced ah-STAR-tay). She’s a Moody 422, built in England in 1987 and sailed across the pond. We are Michael and Barbara, the current captains and owners of this great boat. We are the third owners and hope to sail her for many years.  We began our latest adventure on February 6, 2009, leaving from St. Petersburg, Florida.  We hope we can stretch our cruising kitty to make this trip last as long as possible (sponsorship and donations accepted (REALLY!!!)  ) . We have made our goal for the first leg of this trip - getting to the San Blas islands of Panama.  We started in Florida and continued through the Bahamas, Turks & Caicos,  Puerto Rico then down the Leeward and Windward chain, across the top of South America through the Venezuelan out islands, THE ABCs, then down the coast of Colombian.  From Colombia we cruised into Kuna Yala (San Blas islands of Panama) stopping at many of the eastern islands.  After some time enjoying "Kuna Yala" (San Blas) and mainland Panama,  we headed up the western Caribbean into Providencia and Honduras.  As hurricane season approached we worked our way back down the western Caribbean and back to Panama.  We've gone back and forth between Colombia, Panama and Honduras over the first few years. 

We transited the Panama Canal at the end of 2011 and are now in the Pacific Ocean.  Our next step will be to cross the equator and become "shellbacks" then head to the Galapagos and French Polynesia.   This will be our first big ocean passage aboard Astarte and we are quite excited. We hope you'll enjoy the adventure along with us.

The site is designed to keep family and friends up to date on our whereabouts and activities.  A few classrooms are also using the site for some real life lessons.  The log is updated often from the boat via the SSB (single-side band radio).  Photos are added when we have internet access.  The "where are we" is just that...a position report.    It is quite cool.

We check "contact us" whenever we have access to internet - so if you don't get a response quickly- we apologize. 

We enjoy doing the site - we hope you enjoy following the adventures of S/V Astarte.