I am taking a break for a few mounts to visit Europe. After I may sail to Panama. On may way will have a few stops in Bonaire, Aruba and Cartagena, Colombia. In Panama I will spend a little time in Bocas de Toro and the San Blas Islands before crossing the Panama Canal. From there work my way up to LA, California

For now yes! But I may be open for a new chapter in life and relocate to a new country.

Monsoon is safely on the boatyard in the beautiful Island Grenada, she is currently for sale at a friendly price of $295K You can visit the broker's website:

On the moment I live on a Anastasia, a Catana 522 catamaran. I still own Monsoon, but have listed her with a broker to sell.

The Monsoon is a 72' ketch built in New Zealand and designed by the famous Don Brooke. Brooke - Don Pilothouse Ketch - Proven Blue Water Cruising Yacht General Description: Built in 1978 in New Zealand to a well proven Don Brooke design. Steel hull /alloy superstructure with 185 hp single Detroit Diesel. Monsoon is a classic sea going sailing yacht, ketch rigged. She is professionally designed and built and well equipped for the most demanding open ocean voyages having made 3 Pacific Ocean crossings. She carries all furling sails, a 185 horsepower marine diesel engine, and twin diesel generators. Monsoon has a pleasant and comfortable interior and plenty of seating in sun and in shade.

I am currently in the Caribbean, I will Invite people to sail with me for some parts of the adventure. We can use some help sailing this beautiful catamaran on larger of the passages to come. You must have some experience with sailing. Drop us an email to send your requests to us.

We have a few different electronic setups, Furuno radar/chart plotter 1834C - with 3KW BBFO sounder B&G /depth/log/wind Furuno plotter GPS 32 with C-MAP 36 M Radar Simrad GO 9 Plotter with Navionics maps Navionics app for IPHONE and tablets + Garmin 128 GPS and Icom hand held VHF AIS reciever Simrad AP50 electric/hydraulic autopilot

Yes, near the coast we do have internet on Monsoon. I have STARLINK on board. It works in about everywhere in the world Next is a BITSTORM Bad Boy antenna. It pickes up any wifi connection up to 5 or more miles away. It is connected to our onboard roter for wifi on our phones, laptops and the I mac. Very nice to have when close to a town, city or Hotel areas. Often we can easily watch YouTube at HD when connected to a stronger signal ashore. Awesome and for free. Further I have internet via Digicel from Martinique, it works on most Islands including Panama & Trinidad. but for short passages like between the windward Islands it hardly looses connection too

Electricity on Monsoon is very important. We use a lot of power starting early in the morning with the coffee maker. We cook on a electric stove, electric oven, huge refrigerator, freezer and list goos on with loading computers, phones, watching movies and all the lights and fans on board. While sailing we must add the usage of the auto pilot, navigation equipment, radar navigation lights etc. We have two generators onboard Monsoon. The larger is a Kohler 14 KW and a smaler 8KW Fisher Panda. Both are installed in the engine room using diesel fuel. We do not have to run them often because of the large solar systems we installed this year in Aruba. We do need to run them to use the water maker, washing machine. In that case we put everything on together to limit the use of diesel. Solar system new 1940W upgrade 2020 for 12V & 24V house banks: Two at the aft of the pilot house are Victron panels 130W each to supply the 225Amp 12V house bank they are paralleled connected to a Victron MPPT 75 / 15 controller. The four larger panels, each 280W on the pilothouse roof is to charge the 740Amp 24V house bank. They are two sets, set in series connected to two MPPT 100 / 30 controllers. The two extra 280W panels on the salon roof also goes into the 24V house bank. They are connected in series to a massive Victron MPPT 150 / 70 controller. The reason for this single bigger one is that if one of the MPPT 100 / 30 controller's fail we can ad two of the pannels extra to this controller and don't exceed limits. In colder climates or cloudy days we will not have enough from our solar systems. Then we would have to run one of the generators for a couple of hours a day. Monsoon carries 7300 liters of diesel in two tanks, so no need for shortages on the way.