Getting Infinity boat ready to leave Hawaii !

We are still in Hawaii, working hard to prepare the boat for the big crossing to the Marquesas.

Annie, our Captain, is ready for painting !


Mike, Julien and Sheena are working hard in the engine room




Clemens, having a break from the engine room !


Stephanie and I preparing dinner and cooking bread



But guys are also cleaning while girls do hard work, thanks Troy !


Duncan is making sure the work is being done !


Lucka, after painting the chain plates on both sides of the boat


We also take time to relax and have fun !

Phil kayaking with Tara and Ruben in between two jobs


Michael playing guitar in the library


Joanna relaxing after diving course


Still a lot of work to be done, but we are all excited to make Infinity boat ready to leave Hawaii within one week !
Keep you posted !

Claire

Just joined Infinity Sea Tribe : the dream is coming true !

Since I am a kid, I always dreamt of living on a boat, sailing the Oceans around the world and make something really meaningful with my life. Now the dream is coming true !

I am Claire, French, from Brittany in the west of the country and I joined the Infinity three weeks ago. Three weeks … and I am already feeling like at home here !
The boat, my new home, is really beautiful and huge! I really feel like I have everything I need on board !
All the new crew members are joining one after another. We are people from different countries, different cultures and different ages, from all around the world. It is amazing to see how we already started to connect to each other. I can feel strong good vibes all around the boat. It seems that we all have the same spirit.

I was welcome by the core team: Clemens, Tara and Ruben, Annie, Mike ; and Stéphanie and Julien who came back recently. We are very excited to already hear about the stories from the first part of Infinity Journey and project. They started to teach us the main things we have to know about the boat and the life on board. I am already amazed by the skills!

Let me tell you a little about the new crew members. I first met with Troy, from US. We had a great time making the first cooking team ! We enjoyed preparing a French - American dinner !

Philip, from Ireland arrived the same day as me, and we started to work in the tank room .. Tough job to clean the water tanks and good first experience understanding each other with our different accents! Joanna, from England, came by night, after a party we had on the boat with local people, we talked a lot the first night even if she was really tired after her flight!

Duncan is from England. I just recently discovered that he was fluent in French, but we still speak English together and we share the 6 pm glass of red wine!
Lucka comes from Slovenia, she gave me a great massage in my back yesterday, she is really a specialist !
(pictures of Lucka and Duncan to come soon ..)

Sheena, from Canada, is already a good friend, I like when we sing songs while we do hard work !

Traudl, from Austria is doing an amazing job sawing the new sofa covers.

Michael, from US, is our doctor on board and is already a key person on the boat !


Here is the team at the moment !

We are currently anchored in the east of Oahu in Hawaii, in a beautiful bay. I cannot stop looking at the mountains we see around us, so many different colors! It is really a beautiful place.

Life on board started to get organized very quickly around the daily “schedules” we set up to better live all together : cooking, cleaning the boat, grocery shopping, all the jobs to get the boat ready to go sailing …
At the moment, we are getting the boat ready for the journey to “les îles Marquises”. Everyday, our “captains” prepare many lists of the jobs that have to be done (even “lists of lists” as Annie would say …). It looks like it will never end! But we all enjoy participating in the work. It seems we are all going to learn a lot on board !
Galley, hammer, primer, proxy, derust, bilges, … so many new technical English words for me ! It is a big change from the business English I was used to!


Even if we did not start the voyage yet, I can already tell you some stories: an engine lost in the bay and found back, a car stolen and found back too with only a window broken and some fuel missing, a shoulder repaired by surgery, a foot damaged! But everybody is good; it seems that luck is with us!

I am really excited about living this experience with the Infinity Sea Tribe !
Well, I need to go back to work … I am ready to live the dream !

We will give you soon more news about our departure to the South Pacific.

- Claire -

Infinity in Oahu

To all our readers....Infinity is now in Oahu anchored in the South Eastern bay of the island. The new crew has arrived, everyone is working really hard to get the boat ready for departure early February. Welcome onboard, pictures to come soon.
A very special thank you to David who left the boat after 9 months to return to Canada. David was a very important member of the Sea Tribe and his contribution greatly apprecated.Thank you David and fair winds.

Stephanie