January 10-16, 2016
Logbook – January 10, 2016 (Aranuka to Tarawa)
Passage Log Highlights
- 1515 Engines on
- 1621 Engines off, main (1 reef) + genoa
- 1812 Main (1 reef) + genoa
Daily Notes
- Nothing to report
Email to Family and Friends Dated January 10, 2016
Subject: Exodus – Headed back to Tarawa
After reviewing the weather this morning, we made the difficult decision to leave Aranuka and head back to Tarawa. The wind is not the right direction, but it’s light so we will do some tacking and turn a 1/2-day passage into a 1.5 day one. We waited until the late afternoon to leave, so we could leave at high slack tide, and we are now sailing slowly along the southern side of the atoll.
While saying our good-byes to people in the village this afternoon, we found out that one of the men has an SSB radio and we just did a test with him and he was there and everything seemed to be working. So, we are going to do another test as we get further. This is definitely a first for us… SSB traffic with one of the islanders!
Speaking of SSB traffic, one of our highlights from while we were in Aranuka was that we were able to have SSB traffic with a blast from the past. Our friends on Lady Carolina are on passage from French Polynesia to Hawaii, and we have been able to talk to them a couple times for the first time in over a year! We stay in touch via email, but it was so great to hear their voices. They were so familiar it seemed like no time had passed at all. Of course, Brenden got a boost when Carolina thought he was Tim on the radio. After a couple of years of being mistaken for me, he is happy to be sounding a little more manly!
We will probably arrive in Tarawa tomorrow night after dark, but the harbor is well marked and well-lit and we have a track so we will just go on in rather than wait until morning.
Love and miss you all,
-D.
Logbook – January 11, 2016 (Aranuka to Tarawa)
Passage Log Highlights
- 0324 Main (1 reef) + genoa
- 0600 Main (1 reef) + genoa
- 1749 SB engine on
- 1753 P engine on
- 1920 Engines off Tarawa
Daily Notes
- Mahi Mahi! Small but tasty
- Passage summary:
- Duration 28:05 hrs
- Log miles 150
- Route miles 97
- Track miles 139
- Avg SOG 4.95 kts
- Avg VMG 3.45 kts (68%)
- Engines
- Port: 0.04
- SB 0
- Both 2:33
- Generator 1:30
Logbook – January 12, 2016 (Tarawa)
Daily Notes
- A/T – hours of internet
- D – eggs & other provisions
Email to Family and Friends Dated January 12, 2016
Subject: Exodus -Back in Tarawa
We are back in Tarawa and our day was full of frustratingly slow internet and hunting for interesting provisions. I considered it a successful day because I was able to “like” a few things on FB and I found eggs, cheese, carrots, cabbage, and apples!
It looks like Pali has been upgraded to a hurricane and since the current long range forecast has it going between here and Majuro, we intend to stay around here until that sorts itself out. We may check out here in Tarawa and then go hide out in an atoll just north of here to wait for weather to proceed to Majuro.
Love and miss you all,
-D.
P.S. To all moms and grandmas, we are totally safe from the hurricane here. That’s actually why we are here in Kiribati right now… to avoid hurricanes!
Logbook – January 13, 2016 (Tarawa)
Daily Notes
- T/A/B – diesel
- D – provisions, caught in the rain
Logbook – January 14, 2016 (Tarawa)
Daily Notes
- A – more internet
- D – clear out
- T/B – scrabble
Logbook – January 15, 2016 (Tarawa to Abiang Majuro Marakei)
Daily Notes
- Bouncy boat day in Tarawa
- Night departure
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