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Skipper Steve & Admiral Dorothy are adventuring aboard "Adagio", their 52-ft blue water catamaran. Built by Allan Legge Boatbuilders of Opua, NZ, her design team is comprised of: Morrelli & Melvin Design & Engineering (Newport Beach, CA), Carl Schumacher, N.A (Alameda, CA), and Hughes Group Architects (Sterling, VA).
Adagio was launched July, 2000 Opua, New Zealand. Since then she has enjoyed about 80,000 nm of Pacific cruising. In 2004 Adagio crossed the Pacific the "wrong way", from Tasmania to New Zealand to Tahiti to Hawaii to Alaska. She cruised Alaska and British Columbia until November 2009 when she sailed south to San Francisco. At the end of June 2010 Adagio sailed for New Caledonia with a brief stop in Hawaii. We spent the southern summer cruising New Zealand, returning to New Caledonia in June 2010. We plan to sail for Australia mid-August 2010, then in October, we will sail south to enjoy the Hobart Summer Festival - for the first time slipping Adagio into our berth at the Royal Yacht Club Tasmania.
Dispatches, cruise reports and technical information can be found at our Adagio Journal Website, or just click the Blog menu above.
Email Steve and Dorothy!
Adagio was launched July, 2000 Opua, New Zealand. Since then she has enjoyed about 80,000 nm of Pacific cruising. In 2004 Adagio crossed the Pacific the "wrong way", from Tasmania to New Zealand to Tahiti to Hawaii to Alaska. She cruised Alaska and British Columbia until November 2009 when she sailed south to San Francisco. At the end of June 2010 Adagio sailed for New Caledonia with a brief stop in Hawaii. We spent the southern summer cruising New Zealand, returning to New Caledonia in June 2010. We plan to sail for Australia mid-August 2010, then in October, we will sail south to enjoy the Hobart Summer Festival - for the first time slipping Adagio into our berth at the Royal Yacht Club Tasmania.
Dispatches, cruise reports and technical information can be found at our Adagio Journal Website, or just click the Blog menu above.
Email Steve and Dorothy!
Featured Galleries
![Breaching Humpback whales, Frederick Sound : August 8-13, 2005, Frederick Sound, Alaska
We were cruising the Frederick Sound area searching for Grizzly [Brown Bears]. We got lucky -- as we found three different very playful Humpback whales. These pics where shot with a Canon EOS-350D SLR with 480mm [35mm equivalent].
As we approached the entrance to Pybus Bay around 3PM we saw several individual humpback whales spouting and sounding. Then, ahead, right on our course, a humpback whale breached. Then again. Then he slapped the water with his long pectoral fin, again, and again. The whale breached again, and at least 15 more times as we used up the memory on all of our cameras. Magnificent! What a show! We were able to time its activities and predict just about when the next breach would occur, but never 'where' the whale would surface. But the whale would keep breaching, over and over, giving us time to get our camera pointed in the right direction. Twice the whale breached quite near to the boat, a little too close for comfort.
The researchers at the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary believe that these humpback whale behaviors "allows the whale to dislodge barnacles and other parasites from its body, serves as a form of communication, or maybe just a form of playful activity for the humpback." Scientists are not supposed to anthropomorphize, but it sure looked like fun to us!](/photos/random.mg?AlbumID=2124634&AlbumKey=7Lvn5m&Size=Tiny&rand=3500 "Breaching Humpback whales, Frederick Sound : August 8-13, 2005, Frederick Sound, Alaska
We were cruising the Frederick Sound area searching for Grizzly [Brown Bears]. We got lucky -- as we found three different very playful Humpback whales. These pics where shot with a Canon EOS-350D SLR with 480mm [35mm equivalent].
As we approached the entrance to Pybus Bay around 3PM we saw several individual humpback whales spouting and sounding. Then, ahead, right on our course, a humpback whale breached. Then again. Then he slapped the water with his long pectoral fin, again, and again. The whale breached again, and at least 15 more times as we used up the memory on all of our cameras. Magnificent! What a show! We were able to time its activities and predict just about when the next breach would occur, but never 'where' the whale would surface. But the whale would keep breaching, over and over, giving us time to get our camera pointed in the right direction. Twice the whale breached quite near to the boat, a little too close for comfort.
The researchers at the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary believe that these humpback whale behaviors \"allows the whale to dislodge barnacles and other parasites from its body, serves as a form of communication, or maybe just a form of playful activity for the humpback.\" Scientists are not supposed to anthropomorphize, but it sure looked like fun to us!")
Breaching Humpback whales, Frederick Sound
August 8-13, 2005, Frederick Sound, Alaska We were cruising the Fre ...
Updated: Nov 12, 2006 4:24pm PST
We observed the fun from ADAGIO for a bit, then for a better photo pla ...
Updated: Dec 26, 2009 11:22am PST
Several dramatic glaciers spill over into the arms of Lake Argentino, ...
Updated: Nov 27, 2007 7:10am PST
