OK, back from the middle latitudes, I've spent the last 4 months working on the University of Hawaii's research vessel Ka'imikai-O-Kanaola. We were doing radiation studies off of the nuclear power plants in Japan, it was a multi national team. I was able to watch Dragon boat races in Yokohama. The next trip was for a Korean project bottom maping half way between Hawaii and Mexico. My last week we were loading and dunk testing two subs that they were getting ready for the next two months work. Hawaii 5 O filmed parts of the fourth episode on and around our ship. I will be leaving for the east coast next week to work on Arctic Wanderer and there is lots of work to do. ( Engine rebuild, new stove, fix steering, re-rig the mast, and lots of little things. Here are a couple of pictures from the summer.