Beach Valentines: love around the world
Jake and Jackie Adams pose with Hokule’a in King Harbor before setting off on their big round-the-world journey. Photos courtesy of Jake and Jackie Adams By some accounts, Jake and Jackie Adams of Redondo Beach have been on their honeymoon for over 12 years. The couple married in 2000 on Catalina Island and sailed away from the wedding – an aloha shirt and barefoot affair – aboard their new seafaring home, a Hunter Passage 42 they named Hokulani. “We got married on the beach and I carried her out into the water and put her into a dinghy, and from there we got on the boat,” Jake said. “We’ve been on a boat ever since.” At first they didn’t go far. They docked at the Redondo Beach Marina, where they lived for 11 years. But in the last two years Jake and Jackie have traversed thousands of miles of Pacific Ocean together. Five years ago, they swapped Hokulani for a 45’8” Liberty 458, and in 2011 quit their jobs – Jake was managing the airside development program at LAX and Jackie was an accountant – and sailed into the sunset. Aboard the Liberty, which they named Hokule’a, the Adamses have sailed from Redondo Beach to Mexico, through the Marquesas and Tuamotus, to the Society Islands…
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