Skipper Mike Snyder and crew Warren Fraser and Francois Leglise sailed Distant Dreamer from Hota, Chiba to Habu port on Oshima island on a very pleasant day in the summer of 2009. This was the second leg of a ten-day cruise that took the crew to up and down the West coast of Izu peninsula. The return trip saw Distant Dreamer wait out a typhoon in Shimoda port for two nights before returning first to Misaki, then on to Yokohama with a brief stop at Velasis Marina to pick up TSPS member Tom Proctor for the four-hour run up Tokyo Bay.