October 2-3, 2014
We departed Anchorage #36 in Vava’u at almost 7pm and had a slow, light wind, upwind overnight sail. We had a pretty steady 13-15 kts of wind forward of the beam, but we were reefed down pretty heavily so we didn’t arrive too early. Even still, we had to keep trying to slow down towards the end and then stand off the island until sunrise. Through the course of the passage, we could easily tell we were treading into less travelled waters because we had gotten so used to our AIS display being littered with other vessels and when we arrived in Ha’apai, there were none.
Gresham Family Exodus 