Welcome to the homepage for the sailing yacht Volant and her owners, Edmund "Bear" Downing and Katherine "Kit" Hitchcock. Many thanks to Brainstorm Networks for their generous hosting of this web site and email services. Special thanks to dive gear store for their constant help and support. You are the best!!!

There have beenvisits to this site since its inception on 4 August 1998. Always under construction, it was last updated on 8 July 2001.

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What's New

Bear's Latest Dispatch (#7)

Kit's Latest Log

About Volant	About Their Cruises
About Her Owners	Where They Are Now

Go Sailing with Bear & Kit

Have Slideshow, Will Travel

Bookings and Availability

Sailor Talk

Links

This 'n' That

For more photos of our 1998-1999 Caribbean Cruise, click here. To read detailed logs about that cruise, click here.

Bear and Kit live aboard and cruise in their yacht, Volant. For quick access to those web pages on this site that are either all new or contain significant updates that were posted during the last update or previous updates, click on What's New. To go to their latest dispatch describing their current exploits, click on Bear's Latest Dispatch (#7) to get Bear's point of view or Kit's Latest Log if you want Kit's point of view. If you want to learn more about their boat, click on About Volant. If you want to learn more about Bear and Kit, click on About Her Owners. To read about their past and current explolits, click on About Their Cruises. To find out where they are in their travels and how to contact them by email or snail mail, click on Where They Are Now. If you would like to find out about going sailing with them, click on Go Sailing with Bear & Kit. If you would like to find out about their slideshow, click on Have Slideshow, Will Travel. If you want to learn about their availability for their courses and their currently scheduled slideshow presentations, click on Bookings and Availability. If you want to find some more web sites of interest to them, click on Links. For a collection of articles that they have written on various nautical subjects, click on This 'n' That.

Bear has also written a series of published articles on the origin of nautical terms. If you want to read any of those articles, click on Sailor Talk. Please, have a look at sites and blogs we enjoy: scuba diving site : Oahu Hawaii Diving : .