Chaucer succinctly coined the phrase in the year 1374, "all things come to an end."  We realized that this statement was sadly true with regards to our time with sailing vessel Infinity - we had a date with the owner to return her on September 1 and that day was rapidly approaching.

We embraced this inevitable departure, and thus our life at sea for the present, with grace and knowing that with every completion arises a new beginning. The final months leading up to Sept 1 were rewarding - it was a time to honor the last several decades and our years together as a team that had sailed the world’s oceans.  And, it was also a time for making plans about our next projects and our futures individually and collectively.

To harvest this special time, we held a week long festival onboard Infinity while anchored off Tulai Island in Malaysia. PCRF Board member Sally Silverstone along with Reka and Priska Komaromi joined us for these festivities.  We reminisced with sea stories, enjoyed watching documentaries made about our work as well as our own Studio of the Sea films, dove daily on the reefs, held a “floor pong” tournament (Captain Eibes won!), danced in the rain, read poetry and excerpts from journals, became merry pirates for a day, and launched candlelit boats at our finale dinner on deck under moonlight - each boat was hand made with pandanas reeds from Tokelau Island in the Pacific Ocean.

Days later we set sail for Singapore and returned to our “Home Port” of Raffles Marina.  Met by friends and sponsors, Yves de Leeneer, Francis Lee, Rose, Dirk Davidse, SeaGull Marine, Mercury, LFA Global, Venus Express, Jotun, Viking, Captain Nitin, Louis Harrewijn, Oh Kean Shen and others.  It was a great reunion and we began many talks and discussions about our future at sea and in Southeast Asia! SV Infinity’s owner, Clemens and family, joined us in Singapore to sail with us to Thailand - our final journey onboard the lovely SV Infinity.

While we are no longer all together on a ship at sea, we are moving in concert - individuals that carry the dream of “sea people’ dear to their hearts. While our future is unknown in its detail, anything is possible. We look forward to our future and to the occasion when the dream of sea people is ignited once again, and in that moment, we are all brought together one more time.

In the coming year we will prepare more films, education/outreach programs, and scientific publications – all of these will be posted online. Please "Join the Voyage" and continue to follow our progress and learn about our new projects at

 www.pcrf.org!

I set out to sea to see

To see unimaginable beauty

To see unknown wonders

To see the new

To see more

And sailed toiled, laughed, sang and danced

Living the life of a sailor

I lost it all

Watched it drift off

In the wake of a ship

Washed in rain

Blown out by the wind

To skitter up past the

Sails into the clouds

As the sun burnt down

And new breath filled my lungs

I gained it all

Glowing on the crest of a wave

Quenched in the sunrise

Illustrated by the stars

Deep luscious memories

With which to fill my sails and continue the voyage.

And now I set off anew

To look out with peeled eyes

Moist fresh and open

To see the shore

To see the forest

To see the city

To see nature

To sea people