YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2011/08/07 22:47 LATITUDE: 16-27.68S LONGITUDE: 179-40.71W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 17 WIND_DIR: 178T CLOUDS: 90% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1016.4 TREND: -1 AIR_TEMP: 28.3C COMMENT: Beach House – MOORED – Coiba Island, Volcano Hike this afternoon. Still very windy out there! 20-30k out in the open.
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2011/08/06 03:36 LATITUDE: 16-29.72S LONGITUDE: 179-41.74W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 2 WIND_DIR: 296T CLOUDS: 50% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1012.8 TREND: -1 AIR_TEMP: 26.1C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Yanuca Island, near Budd Reef…NICE!
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2011/08/03 08:19 LATITUDE: 16-45.80S LONGITUDE: 179-46.86W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 3 WIND_DIR: 141T CLOUDS: 80% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1011 TREND: -1 AIR_TEMP: 24.4C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Naiviivi Bay, Qamea Island with s/v \”Equanimity\”. Did \”sevusevu\” today and will go diving at \”Shark City\” tomorrow.
Dear F&F, July 28th – 30th We moved the boat back to the \”Bay of Islands\” where we had briefly traveled through on the way to Dalconi Village. It is a limestone group of small islets that is very similar (on a smaller scale) to the \”Rock Islands\” of Palau. I have vivid memories of
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Dear F&F, July 25th-27th, 2011 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dalconi Village Anchorage (Pronounced Dalthoni) We arrived with s/v \”Kira\” at Dalconi Villages large anchorage. S/V \”Kira\” with Detlaff and Beata aboard have been coming to this island for three years. We also came upon Sam & Shaz on s/v Yani Paratzi out of Florida by way of
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2011/08/01 06:07 LATITUDE: 16-44.15S LONGITUDE: 179-45.08W COURSE: 258T SPEED: 7.0 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 7 WIND_DIR: 108T CLOUDS: 80% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1012 TREND: -1 AIR_TEMP: 27.2C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Matangi Island. Nice sail here from Vanua Balavu. Check out \”Shark City\” weather permitting.
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2011/07/31 00:42 LATITUDE: 17-10.92S LONGITUDE: 178-59.81W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 2 WIND_DIR: 206T CLOUDS: 30% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1014 TREND: -1 AIR_TEMP: 26.7C COMMENT: Beach House – MOORED – Mbavatu Harbor. Bumped the reef again! All okay except my ego.
Dear F&F, July 22nd-23rd We upped anchor early in the morning for the short 1 hour run to Mateui Anchorage at Taveuni Island. We were optimistic about getting a taxi to fuel up by Jerry Can, go to the market and find someone with a fax machine to finally get our \”Lau Permit\” sent to
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Dear F&F, July 23rd – 24th, 2011 (Eastern Hemisphere). Despite the \”true dateline\” being in Fiji, politically the entire group is in the Eastern Hemisphere\’s time zone. Both Tonga and Fiji want to be in the same hemisphere as their major supporters, Australia & New Zealand, so they\’ve \”Gerrymandered\” the dateline to suit. We upped
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Dear F&F, July 26th-27th, 2011 (Eastern Hemisphere). Despite actually being back in the Western Hemisphere, we\’re politically in the Eastern Hemisphere. Welcome to Fiji! We thought we were in for a \”downwindjoyride\” to the Northern Lau for the 50 mile sail. However, we got a one day too late start and the wind went poof.
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