Welcome to Sailing Endless Song

Endless Song is a 1985 Passport 40, hull number 82 — we are her fourth custodians. You don't own a boat, it owns you. She's a Bob Perry-designed boat, built before sailing became complicated. She's not fast, she doesn't need to be. She's strong and stable, as you'd expect from a boat designed to cross oceans comfortably rather than win races. I'm David. Retired geologist. Adrenaline junkie. Currently somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, roughly halfway between Bamfield, BC and Hiva Oa in the Marquesas — about 3,800 nautical miles all up. My partner Darrell, also a retired geologist, is aboard. She's survived living with me since 1983 — which is long enough that she's become a closet adrenaline junkie herself, though she might not always admit it. She deserves equal credit for everything that works on this boat. This blog is the story of where Endless Song goes and what we find when we get there. Last year it was Sydney, BC to Glacier Bay, Alaska — 2,833 miles of coast, fog, bears, glaciers, and the best anchorages on the planet. This year it's the Pacific. We left Bamfield in early June. The plan was straightforward: get south, find the trades, point at French Polynesia. The reality, as always at sea, has been more nuanced. Pull up a chair. There's ocean ahead. — David, somewhere at 130°W