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This should last me a while!
Cost u less rules. It is like Cost co and after tahiti prices....
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I just found a big stash of pictures from other people. I am really bad at taking photos when I am doing something. I more live in the moment. However, if you bring a flash drive to dinner you can enjoy the work of better photographers. This is a red tailed tropic bird and chick. Yvonne is an ornothologist and has the knowledge.
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This coral trout deserves the story told. We had a repalla on a handline out the back of Australia 31s dinghy and wham! I yarded it in and as we got it to the boat s fairly big shark was going for it. I was in the bow and Bernie was driving. He grabbed the leeder and yanked the fish to one side and the shark missed his strike. The shark quickly turned around and bernie yanked the fish into the boat just in time. It was some impressive thinking and moves on his part.
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Male frigate display
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Bernie and Yvonne, from Australia 31, enjoy dinner aboard SV Renova. They have done extensive traveling including Africa and the South Pacific in the 1960s!
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I try to keep my glass half full as best I can. Every single person I have met here rocks and they speak english and are incredibly hospitable! (though I do get laughed at running which has been true of almost everywhere) It is a great island to re-provision which I was really in need of. The busses are cheep as well as the laundramat. And the harbor is beautiful. Drawback- litter. It is pretty insane how much there is in the harbor and on land. Liz you would fill your dinghy up every day! I worry about sucking something up when I run my engine. here is what it lookslike when it blows off the beach and out of the river when the trades shut off.
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A quick shower? There was very little wind so it was hard to tell if I was going to get it or not from these squalls. Some moved fast and some were slow and not always in the same direction.
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So I wrote last week about the trade winds not showing up. That is one of the reasons it is nice to not be on a schedule! The last few days it has been very windy here and two boats that left for tonga are having some great days out there for sure! This is what the ocean looked like for me the on this passage (contrary to the gribs and the noaa text from pago pago). Also very nice "land cloud" over American Samoa in this photo.
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These are the Manu'a Islands. They are east of samoa by a ways. There is a 903m mountain that I saw the night before I passed them a full 70 miles away!
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05/28/2011
A coconut crab would, I think, win in a fight with a dungeness.
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Sv Renova (Cape Dory 36) from Campbell river BC making landfall.
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Hello All,
Special shout out to all my friends who read this. Point defiance runners, Allison, Ingrid, Tad, Jon, Alain, Katie, Ryan and Autumn (congrats) and all those who know who they are. I just got in to Pago Pago this weekend. After spending a month and a half either at sea or at Suwarrow I needed some provisions. However, one of my favorite things about being launched is the inability to spend money. I havnt spent any since the 1st of April. And, low and behold, I ate very well the whole time (fish and crab and lobster) and am happier and fitter than ever. The atoll was amazing though it will remain classified. (not posted on the internet) The boat worked well except the trade winds havnt really shown up for a while and I burned about 120 liters of diesel. The crack in the keel came back which sucks. I fixed it so well in mexico I can imagine the amount of work it is going to take next time the boat is out of the water. It only leeks fast when it is gnarly out. I havny gone upwind when it is gnarly yet and I dare say that the keel is not up to it. I caught and shot a bunch of new fish, too many to list but the best eating were blue fin jack, coral trout, and great barracuda. The internet is sketchy here so I shall post. I hope you all are well and happy.
Namaste
Eric
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If you get the chance to meet Kim Corson on Altair, please say hello from Ken & Lori.
Kim is a single hander who has been out for many years. He also has a boat cat ;-) The two of you should have lots to talk about.
So, Allison, here is the official Secret Agent Crash diet..
-sail to remote atoll
-make sure provisions are limited
-Loose propeller immediatly
-run laps on 200m trail
-catch fish rowing
-repeat for a month
Here is an attempt at a home made propeller...
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These ones are blacktips and are for the most part nice until you shoot a fish...
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