August 4, 2024
One night’s slip is included with the checkout fees at Vuda Marina. Wanting to make the most of it, we moved onto a slip as soon as we could. Then it was go time, cleaning the boat, storing the paddle boards and dinghy, along with blue water preparing the boat. Oh plus a pain in the butt job of tightening…
August 3, 2024
The weather gods smiled on us, instead of the normal SE trades (the direction we were headed), we had a north wind. With provisioning to get done it was still a motorsail giving us a very nice 7.5 knot average. The anchor was no more than set before Roxy and I headed to the dinghy dock to grab a cab…
August 2, 2024
Friday was the Yasawa group rugby playoffs, with our local village (Yasawairara) playing at 8am – it was much too early for us, but Carl and I made the paddleboard/two mile hike into a nearby village. The tournament was a fun format with 10 minute halves for the teams of 7. Being close to the action it was unexpected how…
August 1, 2024
After a quickly breakfast everyone headed to shore separately. Adrian and I had plans to help Mon fix his solar/battery issue. After doing research overnight we both came to the conclusion that the panel wiring was exceeding the solar controller maximum voltage. In a divide and conquer, Adrian took on rewiring the panels while I cleaned up the dirty connections…
July 31, 2024
Coffee complete and we headed north. It was blowing 20ish knots and we started with Reef 1 in the main sail giving up 7.6 knots of speed. Very nice. It wasn’t too rough so I headed down to make my breakfast. There was a gap in between islands coming up so Carl and I put in the second reef and…
July 30, 2024
A great, restful night’s sleep felt so good, sunrising at 6:30am felt strange however since it was 4:15am in Alaska the past three weeks. No complaints, the scenery and temperatures are perfect. Carl put me to grinding the coffee beans and soon enough it was a “To the day!” cheer. After some breakfast, Roxy and I piled into the dinghy…
July 29, 2024
Getting nearly halfway around the world is not without some effort. My trip from Anchorage to Nadi, Fiji started with a flight to Honolulu where I had a two hour layover. What a cool airport, open air walkways with individual buildings for each gate and a very nice garden in the middle. Exploring the Japanese, Chinese, and Hawaiian gardens kept…
July 26, 2024
After the drive from Seward to Anchorage, I managed to purchase a new phone (very necessary for Fiji), enjoyed some great food, and checked out a few of the sites. With too much time in the car driving back from Seward we headed to Kincaid park where there are tons of hiking trails, a biathlon course, disc golf, and play…
July 25, 2024
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