Singapore
Malaysia
Thailand
Thailand, Refit
Back to Malaysia
US Land Logs

Intro to Year 3
Australia, Bundaberg to Cairns
Australia, Double Island to Cape York
Australia, Seisia to Darwin
Australia, Darwin and Area
Indonesia, W Timor
Indonesia, Alor to Flores
Indonesia, Rinca to Lombok
Indonesia, Bali
Indonesia, Bali to Kalimantan
Indonesia, Kalimantan to Singapore

Intro to Year 2
New Zealand Land Trip
Whangarei to Opua
Passage to Fiji
Fiji
Passage to Vanuatu
Vanuatu
Passage to New Caledonia
New Caledonia
Passage to Australia
Arriving Australia

Intro to Year 1
Photo Gallery Year 1
Video Gallery Year 1

Boston to Norfolk
Passage to Caribbean
Caribbean - St Martin
Caribbean - Windwards
Passage to Bonaire
Bonaire and Curacao
Passage to Panama
Panama
Passage to Galapagos
Galapagos
Passage to French Polynesia
FP Marquesas Islands
FP Passage to Society Islands
FP Society Islands
Passage to Rarotonga
Rarotonga
Passage to American Samoa
American Samoa
Samoa
Passage to Tonga
Tonga, Vava'u
Tonga, Tongatapu
Passage to New Zealand
New Zealand
US Land Logs

Welcome to the Voyage of Windbird (VOW). We are Mark and Judy Handley sailing around the world on our Tayana Vancouver 42, Windbird. This homepage was last updated in the spring of 2007 when we were headed into our third year of our journey. It is now two and a half years later, December 2009, and we are headed into the fifth year of our circumnavigation. When we left Boston in 2005 we really thought we would be in the Caribbean by Christmas of this year and home in the spring of 2010. Well, we’re not going to make that. This cruising life is just too much fun.

When we left Boston in 2005, Judy started writing daily travel logs. You can find those by clicking on Travel Logs in the upper right hand part of this homepage screen. There is a log for every single day of our voyage but you can choose to go to a particular part of the world that we have visited and read just those logs if you are interested. Starting in Year 2 of our voyage, photos are attached to many of the logs. When you see a photo at the end of a log, just double click on it and you can see the rest of the pictures that go with that post. Or you can double click on Photo Gallery in the MORE ON OUR TRIP section of the homepage to see all of our photos. We send the daily logs to the web through HAM radio when we are at sea but we cannot access the internet to post photos until we reach land. So photos are often posted a month or more after the logs.

Here’s a summary of the past two seasons of the Voyage of Windbird.

Click on any of the small photos below to see them full size.
Keep scrolling down to see each of the photo strips.

Highlight of Years 3 and 4 . . . Family and Friends Visit

Year 3, Where the Wild Things Are . . . the Komodo Islands and Borneo

Year 3, May to July 2008 . . . HUGE Australia

Year 3, July to October 2008 . . . Faces of Indonesia

Year 3, July to October 2008 . . . Incredible Indonesia

Year 3, September 2008 . . . Beautiful Bali

Year 4, October 2008 . . . Singapore, Land of Many Cultures

Year 4, November 2008 . . . Mellow Malaysia

Year 4, December 2008 to April 2009 . . . Tantalizing Thailand

Where do we go from here? We will leave Thailand in January of 2010 and head across the Indian Ocean to South Africa. We’ll first head to the southwest coast of India and then start our trek south to the Maldives, Chagos, and either Mauritius and Reunion OR Madagascar before making landfall on the coast of South Africa. By December of next year, we hope to headed across the southern Atlantic to Brazil, the Caribbean, and then home to complete the Voyage of Windbird. What then? We’ll keep on sailing.