Cap'n Fatty Sails Round 4
S/V Ganesh Sailing on Round 4 Around the World
| Vessel Name: | Ganesh |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Wauquiez Amphitrite ketch |
| Hailing Port: | St John, USVI |
| Crew: | Cap’n Fatty and Carolyn Goodlander |
| About: | Sailing, living aboard, and cruising offhore together since 1970. We are currently on our fourth circ. |
| Extra: | This is circumnavigation #4 for the Goodlanders; the second aboard Ganesh, our Amphitrite 43 ketch. PS. We cruise on the pennies that Scotsmen throw away! |
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18 October 2018 | Pacific Ocean
Star of Tonga
A quick thank you to Star of Tonga who gave us a huge portion of Lu (Tongan dinner of taro leaves and canned corned beef steamed in coconut milk) just before we left. It was delicious and all that Fatty had to eat for 2 days as I was very seasick. So happy she made it for us! Hope she can get the Ha'afeva Yacht Club going by next year. Ganesh will e there!
18 October 2018 | Pacific Ocean
Star of Tonga
A quick thank you to Star of Tonga who gave us a huge portion of Lu (Tongan dinner of taro leaves and canned corned beef steamed in coconut milk) just before we left. It was delicious and all that Fatty had to eat for 2 days as I was very seasick. So happy she made it for us! Hope she can get the Ha'afeva Yacht Club going by next year. Ganesh will e there!
18 October 2018 | Pacific Ocean
605 miles to Opua, NZ-Eastern Hemisphere
We crossed the International Dateline! Really nice sailing with a fantastic forecast until the 26th. Our GPS program puts us into Opua on the 24th if we average at least 5 knots, so fingers crossed. Plenty of fuel to maintain speed so "Full Steam Ahead!"
17 October 2018 | Pacific Ocean
Better Weather
Finally wind down to the low 20s and on the port beam with 8 foot seas. (last 2 days have been 30-35 knots with 12 foot seas and wind forward of the beam.) So easier sailing! Making great time so far, averaging over 6 knots. (Multihull people will laugh at that, but good for our fat old Ganesh.) Our weather gurus, David and Patricia on Gulf Harbour Radio tell us we should have similar weather for the next several days but try to arrive in Opua before October 26 when a huge low front will be coming through at the north end of New Zealand bringing very strong head winds. Our ETA right now is the 23rd or 24th so should be good. Cold down there now though-39 F degrees last night in Gulfport. (4 degrees Celsius.) A little chilly at this latitude but I guess it will get even colder the further south we go here in the Southern Hemisphere. But happier now with more pleasant sailing!
Left Mopelia, at sea
They cooked us many a landcrab--and there was fish, fish, and more fish!
...every afternoon we brought ashore a snake... popcorn, cakes, chocolate, and brownies.
The 'supply' boat comes about every six to nine months to collect their copra--other than that, they might be on another planet.
I brought my guitar ashore and we had a 'rock concert' with a ukulele for accompaniment.
Currently we are at sea in dizzle and light airs, making 1.5 knots westward. Already we miss our lovely new friends.
We are headed for Beveridge Reef a landless atoll 800 miles WSW.
Fatty
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