Crossing the Big Blue: A Young Man's Quest to Escape Boredom by Sailing the Same Ocean for Thirty Days

Today in a chart shop we came across a series of books written by the same author, about the same guy, and all had some of the best subtitles I've ever read:

The Emperor's Coloured Coat: In Which Otto Prohaska, Hero of the Habsburg Empire, Has an Interesting Time While Not Quite Managing to Avert the First World War

The Two-Headed Eagle: In Which Otto Prohaska Takes a Break as the Habsburg Empire's Leading U-boat Ace and Does Something Even More Thanklessly Dangerous

 Tomorrow the World: In which Cadet Otto Prohaska Carries the Habsburg Empire's Civilizing Mission to the Entirely Unreceptive Peoples of Africa and Oceania

...And on that note it's on to the Marquesas.

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Off Again, Finally

Last Friday, I received an email from the boat I'd been speaking with for the last several months saying that that the trip had been cancelled due to technical difficulties.  Luckily they ran into a guy who had suddenly found himself in need of crew to sail to Australia.  So shit sorted itself out and the trip is a go, albeit in shortened form.  Looks as though we will be skipping French Poly and arrive down under by August/September.

We head out through the canal on June 20th, 2012 and plan to sail for the Cook Islands shortly after.  Once there is something more interesting to write than an uncensored rant about Panamanian customs and immigration it will be posted below.

The official blog, kept by Andrew can be found at http://www.getjealous.com/bakappoi

(It has pictures!)