Mar 13, 2008
By Cap’n Fatty Goodlander
 
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"We find Samoa a very interesting place," says Holger Jacobsen. "We've been across the Pacific before. We can't seem to get enough." Holger, born in Germany, and his Taiwanese-born wife, Gloria, sail Dharma Bum III, a Privilège 12M. Holger and Gloria co-authored Destination Paradise, a great back-to-front tale of their sailing adventures that's available, alas, only in Chinese.

"Dharma Bum III is our third multihull," says Holger, who founded a language institute in Taiwan—and met his adventurous wife there when she enrolled. "I wouldn't even consider a monohull. However, I caution people about buying a used charter vessel. We purchased ours in the Caribbean. Our hull is structurally OK, but we keep having rudder and saildrive problems. Our boat was used very hard."

Their 3-year-old daughter, Aurora, an avid nudist, completes the crew.

"We're having a wonderful time cruising the Pacific," says Gloria. "People have been so nice to us. Why, some pearl farmers in French Polynesia spent weeks making us an elaborate seashell-and-pearl tree that's just fabulous! But make no mistake: Cooking and sailing and raising a child aboard take a lot of work. But it's well worth it, however, when you're having lots of fun at the same time."

They currently have no specific cruising plans, other than to wander where wind and whim dictate—like the dharma bums they truly are.


After months of cruising in Micronesia, the Goodlanders are now back in Southeast Asia and ping-ponging between the Philippines and Hong Kong.
 
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