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The Hacking Family |
WHAT'S NEW ON THE SITE
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Welcome to the Hacking family website with Sue, Jon, Chris, and Amanda on Ocelot, our 45-foot Wauquiez designed catamaran. We've been on this trip since December 2001, sailing from the Caribbean through the Panama Canal and on across the South Pacific. We spent a year in the Republic of Fiji, where we enjoyed the colorful Indo-Fijian culture and food as well as the easy, laid-back Fijian hospitality. In October 2005 we sailed southwest about 700 miles to the French territory of New Caledonia. After a glorious month inside the reef of New Caledonia we crossed 800 miles of the Coral Sea to Brisbane, Australia, arriving in November, 2005. Sadly, we gave Vanuatu a miss: partly for time and partly due to the malaria issues. Sailing to Australia was our original goal when we left from St. Maarten in 2001. Now that we've arrived - well, there's so much more world to see! After waiting out cyclone season in S Queensland, we want to go to Darwin by June. We've signed up for the Darwin-Kupang rally (July) and we're preparing for 3 months in Indonesia. Current plans put us in Thailand for Christmas, but like most cruisers, our plans are prone to change on short notice! Ongoing improvements to photos -
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----- April 2006 ----- Our coverage of
New Caledonia
now includes new pages on
Noumea, the
western reef, the
Isle of Pines, and
Prony Bay. We sailed from
New Caledonia to
Brisbane, Australia in November 2005. We've added some new photos and information on
parrotfish,
sharks and
butterflyfish from the
dives we did in Tonga, Fiji, and New Caledonia. ----- December 2005 ----- Friends have loaned us a mobile phone so we can now be
contacted instantly (only while we're in OZ): +6143 141 8826. Our initial coverage of
New Caledonia
has illustrated copies of the newsletters we sent on passage and
our first few weeks there. We have now added more pages on the
Flora & Fauna of Tonga & Fiji.
Plus there's a whole new section on
Marine Mammals. ----- August 2005 ----- Jon's published some tricks and traps for
others attempting to put together a website like ours.
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----- April 2006 ----- After Chris went to university we were very glad to have Amanda's
cousin Tianna
come visit for 2 months. Jon has started brewing his own beer! He's added a
small
section on how to do this on board. ----- December 2005 ----- Our Fiji coverage now includes new pages on
S Vanua Levu,
E Viti Levu,
Southern Islands,
W Viti Levu, the
Mamanucas & the
Yasawas. Our Fiji Diving
page includes the 4 dives we did in the Mamanucas. We've also
added GPS positions for all of our dives. Sue's Log pages have now been restructured
and reorganized. Her newest log entry talks about relationships on board. ----- August 2005 ----- We've been trying to get Sue's brother's daughter,
Emilia, to visit for several years, and finally got our wish.
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On The Site:
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Check out our Landfalls pages, divided between the Caribbean and the Pacific, to see where we've been and our impressions of each place. Amanda has done an extraordinary job with the 'hot-spotted' maps throughout the Landfalls section, making the geography much more intuitive. |
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Our Newsletters section contains newly illustrated copies of the email newsletters we send out. These reflect our at-the-moment thoughts and feelings, often written on passage. We've also included valuable cruising information for places like the Galapagos, Marquesas, Tonga, and Fiji. |
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The Flora and Fauna section documents many of the plants and animals we've encountered. There's also a Marine Mammals section. |
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The Underwater pages showcase our underwater photography and scuba diving. |
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On our Ocelot pages you can see pictures of the boat from the deck, cockpit, and inside, her layout, specifications and even some of the modifications we've made to turn her into an ocean cruiser. |
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Jon is an Electrical & Computer Engineer (see his resume) so his pages include his technical slant on some of the boat systems as well as a collection of stories from when we cruised in the 1980s. |
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Sue's pages include the culinary aspects of cruising (provisioning info and recipes) and insights into the cruising life. Sue, aka Sue Muller Hacking, is a writer (see her bio) with several published books and hundreds of articles to her credit. |
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Chris writes about our inland travels, underwater photography, his projects and schooling. |
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Amanda brings lots of pictures, her unique teen perspective, plus school projects. |
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The Boat Guests pages are designed to make everyone jealous of our visitors and want to come down themselves! We've even included a What to Bring page. |
Ocelot's Cumulative Sailing Statistics for 2002-2005 |
Sailing Stats: After 4 years (48 months
or 1461 days) on Ocelot, we've spent:
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 Jon and Amanda prepping the spinnaker, inside the New Caledonia reef |
Website Stats: We now have about 600 pages (including 2,500 pictures and maps, and 14,400 hyperlinks) on the site. It takes us 6-8 hours to produce just a single page, so this site represents a lot of work. In April 2006, the website was getting about 400 unique visitors a day or almost 12,000 per month! While the majority of these come from the USA, we're also getting a surprising number of hits from all over the world! |
 Jon lands a trevally off New Caledonia |
 Kanak teens on Kanumera Beach, Isle of Pines |
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