Joe Siudzinski is a retired engineering director, a life-long multihull sailor on San Francisco Bay, and now the owner of a Seawind 1000 cruising catamaran named KatieKat. Joe and his wife Kathy are recording their open-ended cruise from Sydney (Australia) on this website. The cruise so far has covered the entire east coast of Australia (including Tasmania) in 2000-2002, New Caledonia in 2000, the sail to New Zealand via Lord Howe Island in late 2002, some coastal cruising and touring of New Zealand in 2003, the passage to Fiji, the Fiji MiniCruise, the passage to New Caledonia, the revisit of New Caledonia, the 'interesting' passage from New Caledonia to Australia in late 2003, and the Australian coastal cruising and inland touristing in 2004. In August 2004, KatieKat was shipped to Vancouver, British Columbia. After a very brief Fall British Columbia cruise and sitting out the winter in Washington State, KatieKat spent 2005 wandering through British Columbia and SouthEast Alaska, including Glacier Bay. In September 2005, Joe and Kathy sailed KatieKat down the northwest US coast home to San Francisco Bay. Joe and Kathy resumed cruising in October, 2006, sailed down the California coast to Baja California, then spent the winter sailing down to Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta and then back up, exploring the Sea of Cortez. After "Baja Bashing" up the coast to Southern California in April 2007 and a summer break to have the boat lengthened in San Diego, Joe and Kathy sailed home and arrived in San Francisco Bay on 1 September, 2007. Sadly for us, we were unable to resume our cruising lifestyle and KatieKat was sold in December, 2012. You are cordially invited to visit this chronology.

(Click on small photos or underlined text to see details)

2000 Delivery Sea Trials Sydney	2000 Brisbane Queensland	2000 Kuto Bay Isle of Pines New Caledonia	2001 Lizard Island Great Barrier Reef Northern QLD	2002 Opera House Sydney	2002 Constitution Dock Hobart Tasmania
2002 Lord Howe Island Tasman Sea	2003 Auckland New Zealand	2003 Mount Maunganui New Zealand	2003 Waya Island Fiji	2003 Amedee Lighthouse New Caledonia	2004 Lady Musgrave Lagoon Great Barrier Reef
2004 Brisbane, Australia to Vancouver, British Columbia	2004 Chatterbox Falls Princess Louisa Inlet British Columbia	2005 Glacier Bay Alaska	2005 Arriving Home Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco Bay	2006 Multihulls Magazine March/April 2006 Cover Photo	2006 SingleHanded Farallones Race
2006 Leaving Home San Francisco October	2006 Start Baja Ha-Ha Photo Lat38 Annie San Diego	2006 Bahia Santa Maria Baja California Mexico	2007 Transom Extension San Diego California	2007 Catalina Island California	2007 Arriving Home Again Golden Gate Bridge September

31 December, 2012 - We are sad to announce that our cruising life on KatieKat will not be continuing, and that KatieKat has been sold. Here's the final update: 2012

KatieKat WEBSITE WEBPAGE	CONTENTS	LAST UPDATED
This HomePage	You're looking at it	3 August, 2022
Cruise Index	<--- Complete KatieKat Cruise Chronology Index	31 Dec., 2012
Passages Index	Index to KatieKat's Offshore Passages	7 June, 2004
KatieKat FAQ	Frequently Asked Questions	4 Aug., 2011
KatieKat The Cat	Details of our Seawind 1000	8 Nov., 2007
Para-Anchoring Index	Index of our Para-Anchor and Drogue Deployments	12 June, 2004
Signs Index	Index of all the silly Sign writeups	26 June, 2004
Seawind to the Farallones	1999 Doublehanded Farallones Race	29 Sept., 2000
Telstar to Alaska	Joe's Singlehanded 1998 Trimaran Cruise	12 Oct., 2001
Sea Stories	Joe's Old Sailing Sea Stories	30 Dec., 2008
Kathy and Joe	Wedding photo and hiking Milford Track	10 April, 2000
Joe's Sailing Photo Gallery	Chronological review of Joe's sailing life	28 April, 2002
Joe's Vehicle Gallery	Chronology of Joe's old cars and motorcycles	1 Dec., 2007
Kathy's Korner	Not to be outdone, these are Kathy's interests	13 April, 2000

UPDATE 3 August, 2022
This website has been dormant for almost ten years. Our very-reliable website hosts of 22 years had suddenly announced that they wouldn't be hosting any more, so this website has just been migrated to a new host, GreenGeeks.com, touting itself as the greenest web host on the planet (purchasing wind energy 3x what is consumed by their operations). Also, taking this opportunity to completely remove the previous unsponsored links to other websites, some of which are now obsolete, and continuing with this site being self-funded and containing no sponsors or paid advertising. Inasmuch as I laboriously created and maintained this website in raw html, I need to re-learn html and file transfer protocols and update this website a wee bit, for starters. Stay tuned...

DISCLAIMER
Neither Joe nor Kathy has any financial association with Seawind Catamarans - we were just very happy owners of a Seawind 1000.

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