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Our track in and out of Mooloolaba, QLD, AustraliaUnder Cruising Information you'll find great info for sailors following in our wake: A big equipment section, articles on cruising with teens, yacht provisioning and recipes, FAQs, downloadable Track Files plus pages on specific areas like Solomon Islands, Australia and Indonesia.

Our Underwater pages showcase our underwater photography, reef life and scuba‑diving.  Dive sites include GPS locations so others can find these sites as well.  We have new dive information on Raja Ampat and Triton Bay, Indonesia. Soft coral in eastern Indonesian waters

Ocelot at anchor in Indonesia On our Ocelot pages you can see pictures of the original boat plus her layout, specifications and some of the modifications we've made to turn her into an ocean cruiser.  More recent pages take you through the details of our major Thai Refit.

Amanda's wonderfully intuitive hot-spotted mapsOur Landfalls pages are divided by ocean -- Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian.  They're all about where we've been and what our impressions were.  They're as much for land travelers as cruisers.  Amanda 'hot‑spotted' most maps, helping to clarify the geography.

Sue and Jon in Banda, Indonesia We've illustrated the newsletters emailed from the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean.  Read about our travels and "passage notes" while at sea.  To get our e‑newsletters you can sign‑up and manage your own subscription. Our mailing list is never shared with anyone. 

The Flora and Fauna pages document many of the plants, animals, birds and marine mammals we've encountered in our travels.  It's organized by geographical regions.  Brahmini Kite over Thailand, by Amanda Hacking
 

WELCOME
to the Hacking Family website with Sue, Jon, Chris, and Amanda on Ocelot, our Kronos 45' (14m) now 48' (15m) Wauquiez‑designed catamaran.  We've been on this trip since 2001, sailing from the Caribbean through the Panama Canal, across the South Pacific and the Indian Oceans to Africa, then back to Asia and the South Pacific.  There's so much world to see!

  WHAT'S NEW on the SITE  

LATEST NEWS: Sue and Jon have spent most of 2023 in South America, while Ocelot waits for us in Malaysian Borneo.  We spent most of the CV19 lock‑down in the Philippines, in and around Palawan, the long skinny island that juts NE from the northern tip of Borneo.  In 2019, we left PNG to come up to Davao, SE Philippines for a few months.  In January we sailed north and west through the Philippines with a niece and nephews.  In March 2020 we were headed for Puerto Princesa, the capital of Palawan, to clear out and head for Malaysian Borneo, but Malaysia closed its ports, so we were stranded.  When the pandemic finally ended, and surrounding countries started opening up, we sailed down to the northern tip of Borneo to haul Ocelot out & fly back the the US & then down to South America.

For Folks in Washington State or with Friends/Family there:

Sue's latest book - Take A Walk Sue's hiking guidebook is selling well in bookstores and on-line.  The 4th edition(!) of Take A Walk (published by Sasquatch Books) features 120 parks and walking trails within 30 minutes of Seattle and Puget Sound (Olympia to Everett) and has lots of new and updated trails. A great tool for finding nearby walks.
See Sue's latest Take A Walk book!

Everyone:

  • Our Diving Indonesia page has dozens of dive sites through Raja Ampat and Triton Bay, Bali and Biak.  These unspoiled waters provide superb diving.
  • We're always hunting for Nudibranchs so check out our Underwater Reef Animals section.  Picasso critters!
  • We welcome your input!  Just click the Make a Comment link at the bottom of any page to share your thoughts.

Cruisers:

  • We've updated our Sail Drives page with more modifications every sail drive owner should know about.
  • We are now publishing track files in OpenCPN (.gpx) format.  We are also asking cruisers to email us their tracks so other cruisers can download them.  Let's start a Track File Bank!  See our updated Track Files page

Builders:

  • Want to Build a Bimini?  We've now brought all our bimini building info together on just 1 page, for easier reference.  It has over 30 illustrations and many links back to the days we actually did the work.  See our new Bimini Building page.

Where's Ocelot??  Find the red marker for our latest position (map may take a few seconds to appear).
Click Map in the upper right and select Satellite for the best view, then zoom in on what you want to see!
Courtesy of Winlink.org and the Amateur Radio Safety Foundation.
To see our positions further back in time, check out ShipTrack.org


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