WELCOME ABOARD                                                           60' MORGAN  SCHOONER


For those we have left in our wake or those interested in a cruising lifestyle, we invite you to follow us on this journey of adventure and adversity, challenge and discovery.
 

ARIEL'S LATEST LOG ENTRY
   SAIL INDONESIA RALLY     2007
  Cruisers are a strange lot!   In many cases they have given up everything they have known.... home, jobs, security....then cramming themselves into these small sailing crafts, spend hours working on projects to keep it afloat for the security of knowing it is all that keeps them alive.
  Then they set out across vast oceans for the purpose of adventure......basically going where the  wind blows with no set time frames.  After all....this is what cruising is all about.
   So why then would any of these, supposedly independent, self reliant, hard-working, hyper vigilant, resourceful, compulsive obsessive individuals with a marked propensity toward risk taking, be joining a RALLY with over 110 others of similar likeness?  We were about to find out!

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Captain Steve                                            1st Mate Gayla


Ariel is a 60 foot Morgan equal mast schooner.   She was commissioned as a charter boat in 1982 for the America's Cup races then chartered guests for years in the Virgin Islands.   Now privately owned by captain Steve Reinken, he and 1st mate Gayla Phelps have sailed together through the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Red Sea and two transatlantic crossings in the last 8 years.   Ariel’s Logs begin when she set sail on a circumnavigation from Florida in May 2001.   She sailed first through the NW Caribbean, transiting  the Panama Canal then across the South Pacific to Australia. 
 

WHERE TO NEXT?????

S/V Ariel will be making Malaysia and Thailand a home base for the 2008 sailing season while she undergoes a complete facelift. Her captain and 1st mate will be living up to that obsessive behavior