Getting Ready to Sail from Snowy Hokkaido to Sunny Kagoshima, Japan.

Just a few more days until I fly to Hokkaido and sail a 28 foot Bristol Channel Cutter through the Tsugaru Straights between Hokkaido and Honshu, the main Island of Japan and then head off down the Pacific side of Japan keeping close to the coast so as to avoid the fast flowing “Kuroshio” current that runs up the Japanese archipelago. Total distance around 1200Nm and expected passage time will be / maybe 10-14 days.

The episode is just me talking with a few pictures and sailing routes, plus a bit at the end about how it felt spending time watching my kids grow.
Next Episode will have lots of sailing and boaty stuff.

Link to James Wharram Designs and the Islander 55

And Tiare’s Build photos.
The photos with a lighter blue hull and the bright white interior are of another Islander that was launched recently.
Tiare was hull #1

About Tiare.
Tiare is not your usual production catamaran, she is a Wharram Islander 55 and has been our home for seven years. The last two years have seen us “settle” in the inland sea of Japan while our youngest son finishes high school.

Being in one place has given us the opportunity to alter Tiare to fit in to what we would like in a world cruising sailboat. And to start creating a source of income that can travel with us.

Wharram catamarans offer an affordable alternative for everyday people to cast off and cruise the worlds oceans.
Where simplicity means the freedom to stay out for longer.

We hope these videos will inspire others to look at what it means and takes to live aboard while sailing the world and that Japan must be one of the greatest cruising destinations on the planet.