----- August 2014 -----

In June we took an inland trip to the northern highlands of Vietnam.  (43 photos)
See our 4 illustrated Vietnam Newsletters...

Ocelot now has a Facebook page.  Check it out!

We've now added a way to comment on any page - just click the Make a Comment link at the bottom of each page.

----- July 2014 -----

In May we took an inland trip to Laos, using only public transportation and focusing on the northern highlands.  (68 photos)
See our 4 illustrated Laos Newsletters...

----- April 2014 -----

We're cruising!  Read our descriptions as we cruise around Phang Nga Bay and down to Langkawi, Malaysia with cruising friends Dave & Gail.

See our Summary Pages for an overview of our many months of work.

----- March 2014 -----

Ocelot has LAUNCHED!  It's been a long 28 months, but we're finally back on the water.  But no sooner did we launch than the port fo'c's'le filled with seawater.  Then a local boat threatened us with a knife!

----- February 2014 -----

As of Week 121 of Ocelot's refit we're trying to get everything ready to splash next Monday!  Yikes!

----- April 2013 -----

Cruisers: Do you know the difference between cut‑thread & rolled‑thread turnbuckles?  Or which type you want? Or how to check which you have?
Before you buy your next turnbuckle,
Check out our new Turnbuckles page...

Cruisers: We've published a page on OpenCPN, our navigation program of choice, with detailed instructions on how to use it with Google Earth, even when you're offline.
Check out our new OpenCPN page...

----- March 2012 -----

LEDs are rapidly becoming the lighting of choice.  They're much more efficient, affordable, and now they come in eye‑pleasing warm‑white.  But before you run out to buy, there are things you should know.
See our new LED page

Cruisers: We have now updated several of our Cruising Information pages with superbly detailed satellite photos of our anchorages, live Google Maps & new Track Files.
See our Cruising Madagascar page
See our Cruising Indonesia page
See our Andaman Islands page
See our Cruising Marquesas page
See our Cruising Galapagos page

Cruisers: We are now publishing track files in both OpenCPN & MaxSea formats.  We are also asking cruisers to email us their tracks so other cruisers can download them.  Lets start a Track File Bank!
See our updated Track Files page

Where's Ocelot?  See our new position tracking map at the bottom of this page!

Want to build your own website?  Jon has published 2 pages of tricks and traps for others attempting to put together a website like ours.
Read Jon's FrontPage 101 and FrontPage FAQ pages

LATEST NEWS: We're currently in NE Indonesia, in Raja Ampat.  This area has world class diving which we hope to experience.  After our 3 March launch from our 2+ year refit, we transited the Strait of Malacca for the 4^th time, left the boat in Johor Bahru (near Singapore) and explored northern Laos and Vietnam for a month.  Great trip!  Then we rounded Singapore and sailed into the South China Sea, over Borneo with a jaunt up the Kinabatangan River to see the wildlife, and are now on the Sail Indonesia Rally to Raja Ampat.  Stay tuned...

Our trip has had many goals, but a primary one has been to teach ourselves, and especially our children, about the different cultures of the people in our world, and the values those people live by.  Many people never learn what's important to other cultures and too often feel that other people should feel as they do.  But we know that other cultures have very different values from our own, and we feel it's important, especially for the coming generation who will be leading our society in only a few years, to know this as well.  We hope that with better understanding, future generations will be better equipped to defuse some of the strife that threatens world peace.

----- Ocelot's Intrepid Crew -----

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.

Sue's pages give insights into the cruising life and include things like provisioning information.  Sue, aka Sue Muller Hacking, is a writer (see her bio) with several published books and hundreds of articles to her credit.

Christopher graduated from the University of Washington (UW) in Computer Science and Engineering in June, 2010!  He is now working as a software engineer and loving it.  It's so nice to have someone in the family earning real money!  While no longer aboard full time, he wrote about our inland travels, underwater photography, his projects and schooling during his 3.5 high school years aboard Ocelot.

Amanda graduated cum laude from the University of Washington in 2012 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Oceanography!  She lived aboard for 6.5 years and logged more than 20,000 miles on Ocelot.  While no longer aboard full time, she's shared her unique teen perspective, logs of our travels and her high school projects.

Sue's new guidebook is now out!  Take A Walk details 110 parks and walking trails within 30 minutes of Seattle and Puget Sound (Olympia to Everett).  This is her 3rd edition, with better illustrations, better layout, new maps, and lots of new and updated trails. See Sue's Take A Walk Book