Day 1 Date: Thursday, November 1st 2018 Time: 23:00 UTC (12pm local) Location: 20° 47.49′ S, 176° 13.84′ W COG: 230°T SOG: 5.5kts Distance to the New Zealand: 1147 nm Distance covered since departure (19 hrs) : 86nm Happy Halloween from Banyan! I first have to say that we LOVE reading your comments. We always …
Author: Anne Vawter
Outbound Niue, Inbound Tonga
The below was written on Saturday, October 27th Location 19° 54.6742 S 172° 36.1894 W COG: 260° SOG: 4.5 knots With some funky weather hitting us on the nose and some lighter winds forecasted, we have decided to swing into an uninhabited island in the Tongan group just to wait out the weather and have …
Never Heard of Niue?
Date: Friday, October 25th 2018 Time: 21:34 UTC Location 19° 49.27 S 171° 29.33 W COG: 262° SOG: 5.2 knots I had also never heard of Niue until our minds and plans started heading west from French Polynesia. People were asking “Are you stopping at Niue? Palmerston? Suwarrow?” common stops on the way west. Niue …
Notes on Suwarrow
If you’ve read the last few posts, you know that we have had a pretty special time in Suwarrow National Park in the Northern Cook Islands. The girls have been tasked with more writing projects lately and I was really pleased with the work they put into the recent posts. Thanks for all the very …
Bird Island
By Elizabeth Vawter Bird Island is one of the many motus that surround the atoll of Suwarrow National Park in the Cook Islands of the South Pacific. This island has a cloud of birds that come there to nest every year. A rough estimate of the number of birds is five hundred thousand. We were …
A Reef Walk
By Adelaide Vawter (11 years old) Today in Suwarrow National Park, part of the Cook Islands and one of the most remote atolls in the world, we are going on a reef walk at 9:30 am. We determined that low tide was at 10:52am with our Navionics navigation software. It is important to go at …
French Polynesia to Suwarrow Passage – Day 6
Date: Sunday, September 30th 2018 Time: 17:00 UTC Location: 13°14.85′ S, 163°06.52′ W COG n/a SOG: 0 Distance to the Suwarrow: 0 nm 24hr Distance covered: 88 nm “LAND HO!” I heard hollered from just over my hatch, right after I had heard Cameron whisper to the girls to stay quiet so I could sleep. …
French Polynesia to Suwarrow Passage – Day 5
Date: Saturday, September 29th 2018 Time: 17:00 UTC Location: 13°33.29′ S, 161°38.37′ W COG 283° T SOG: 4.7 kts Distance to the Suwarrow: 88 nm 24hr Distance covered: 112 nm Cameron here .. Just 88 miles to go! We’ll probably be able to see Suwarrow before daybreak tomorrow. We’ll slow down as much as needed to …
French Polynesia to Suwarrow Passage – Day 4
Date: Friday, September 28th 2018 Time: 17:00 UTC Location: 14°03.14′ S, 159°47.75′ W COG 283° T SOG: 5.7 kts Distance to the Suwarrow: 201 nm 24hr Distance covered: 140 nm Cameron here. Yesterday afternoon our fishing dry steak came to an end. I was down stairs doing dishes when I heard that sweet scream of …
French Polynesia to Suwarrow Passage – Day 3
Date: Thursday, September 27th 2018 Time: 17:00 UTC Location: 14° 39.87 S, 158° 07.26 W COG 286° T SOG: 6.0 kts Distance to the Suwarrow: 304 nm 24hr Distance covered: 122 nm It is so mellow out here that we have been in anchorages more uncomfortable than this. Santa Barbara and La Cruz, MX come …