Welcome to s/v Quest Adventure Log
Table of Contents
Charts & Maps
Meet Quest's Crew
Where Are We ?
2007 & 2008 Travel Plans
Voyages 2006
Voyages 2005 - 1
Voyages 2005 - 2
Voyages 2005 - 3
Voyages 2003-04
Quest's 2002 Voyage

Travel and cruiser links
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Site Map
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Quest Photos
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Bible Mission
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Charts, Maps
and Distances
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I just added a few nature pages:
Birds
Flowers
Sealife

 


Jean last updated this site on: 05/17/08
This is the website with photos of the green flash - I kid you not!

 

 

Welcome to the Home Page of the Sailing Vessel Quest Web Site!

(I have links to individual pages at the bottom of this page.)

This is the s/v Quest Website. The Quest is a Davidson 58 Pilot House Sloop. She is the home to Jean and Scott Adam. The Quest started an "around-the-world" trip in mid December of 2004. This is planned to be an eight or ten year voyage. We hope to post various aspects and segments of the trip and our lives to this Web Site. I'm beginning to realize that there are a lot of pages on this web site. I've tried to limit the material here, by confining one location to one page, but you see it hasn't always happened. I've also spent a little more space on the more remote locations we've visited. Feel free to email me with any comments. The photo to the right is of Scott & myself on the way up to the waterfall on Taviuni in Fiji this past year (2007). The Quest under full sail off the Mexican coast!

I can't believe it's 2008 and we're planning a second visit to Fiji. Fiji has been so highly recommended that we're planning to spend two cruising seasons in the Fijian Islands. We'll take the Quest back to New Zealand for another hurricane season before we start thinking of Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and Phuket.

Our 2006 cruising grounds include the Cook Islands, Samoa and Tonga. This section starts with a  chartlet of the area and ends with more photos from New Zealand, 2006.

The Quest was built in New Zealand and was sailed back to the United States in 2002 by Scott & Jean Adam and various crew. The 2002 trip left from Auckland, New Zealand and went to Alaska via Tahiti and Hawaii. This Web Site features our past voyages from New Zealand to French Polynesia, the Line Islands, Alaska, British Columbia and Mexico. We have since traveled to Mexico (twice) and returned north to British Columbia.

I'd also like you to see some sights around Marina del Rey, our last U.S. port of call.

The voyage of 2005 started in Mexico and continued south to El Salvador and Costa Rica to Panama. From Panama we turned right and headed to the Galapagos and from there to the Gambier Islands in the most south eastern parts of the Tuamotus. The Gambiers are a bit near (or west of) Easter Island and Pitcairn Island, 3,000nm and 18 days of sailing from the Galapagos. What a trip!! The Quest now rests (after over 50,000nm of water under her hull) in New Zealand and we plan subsequent trips from there.

A lot of our enjoyment is is looking at sealife. I was pretty happy with this shot of a manta ray (left). I have more on my "Sealife" page. This manta lives near Buliya Island in the Astrolabe Reef of Fiji.

There are seventy five (75) pages on this web site. Follow the links to learn more about various aspects and segments of the trip, and to link with some of my favorite Web sites. Also, keep checking with us because I'm hoping that my skills will improve and this site will become more appealing with time.  The second page of this web site is the Table of Contents which is an outline of all the pages and their links try it for easy viewing of all the pages and their links! (Techies call this a site map.)

This page has some good travel links and other good cruiser stuff.

Another aspect of our travels is friendship evangelism - that is, finding homes for thousands of Bibles, which have been donated through grants and gifts, as we travel from place to place. We'll show you what wonderful turn of events have occurred as a result of this endeavor.

This Web site is the first (and possibly only!) Web site created by Jean Adam. My desire is to keep it up to date as much as possible on our trip. But since this trip is a reflection of our life and because life on a moving boat is unpredictable we expect this trip to hold some unexpected surprises! This web site is definitely a "work in progress!" I'm at the point now where I welcome any suggestions. So, if you have some ideas, let me know!

This website is best viewed in Microsoft Internet Explorer.

This web site includes separate sections for various years that the Quest has been cruising:

    To view our travel plans for 2007 click here. (2008 also!)
        Suva, Gua, Fawn Harbor, Albert Bay, Budd Reef. Beqa, Vanui Bay, Makogai, Naqara

    To view our travel plans for 2006 click here.
       
In the States - 2006 Cook Islands, 2006 Rarotonga, 2006 Aitutaki Palmerston  Suwarrow Penrhyn Samoa Tutuila, American Samoa 'Upolu, Western Samoa Savai'i, Western Samoa Tonga Niuatoputapu Vava'u Ha'apai Tongatapu New Zealand, 2006

    To view our travels from January to June of 2005 click here.
        Mexico - 2005   Interior Mexico 2005   Mexican Gold Coast   El Salvador   El Salvador - Interior   Costa Rica   Panama Canal   Panamanian Islands

    To view our travels from July to September of 2005 click here.
        Galapagos - Pt. 1   Galapagos - Pt. 2   Gambier Islands   Marquesas, Fatu Hiva   Marquesas, Hiva Oa   Northern Marquesas   The Tuamotus

    To view our travels from September to December of 2005 click here.
        Tahiti to Raiatea   DRYC Rendezvous   Mopelia to The Cooks   Cook Islands   Minerva to New Zealand

    To view our travels in the years 2003 and 2004 click here.
         British Columbia   Mexico - 2003   Catalina Island   Marina del Rey

    To view our travels in the year 2002 click here.
        New Zealand     S. Pacific Ocean '02   Tahiti & Moorea   Line Islands   Alaska

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Table of Contents Charts & Maps Meet Quest's Crew Where Are We ? 2007 & 2008 Travel Plans Voyages 2006 Voyages 2005 - 1 Voyages 2005 - 2 Voyages 2005 - 3 Voyages 2003-04 Quest's 2002 Voyage