The time came, however, to set sail again aboard SOUTHERN CROSS and return to voyaging, cruising, and Robby's true forte, writing and publishing. We cast off the docklines in June '07 to become once again "Vagabundos del Mar" (Vagabonds of the Sea) to cruise again and spent 13 months at Fanning Island (click link to left) and then sailed through the Northern Cooks, Samoa, Northern Tonga and finally arrived in New Zealand December 1, 2008.

Our Sea Witch served us extraordinarily well throughout the years but after nearly 2 decades of living aboard we, not without some regrets, put our venerable classic yacht up for sale. Ed and Stacy McDonald bought her in September 2009, so we are "between boats" at the moment.

We spent summer of 2009 and 2010 moving tons of stuff our our boat into a shipping conatiner and then campervanning around New Zealand and also rennovating our rentals in California and Washington State. As 2010 draws to a close, we are searching for a place to live, who knows where? In the meantime, we are available to professionally care for your home and/or animals anywhere in the world. Click Caretaking link to left and "Contact Us" for references, etc.