After a week in Niuatoputapu, we departed Sunday 15 May around 8am. It was another upwind, overnight passage, and we made it into Port Maurelle, and anchorage in Vava’u that we knew quite well just before 5pm the following evening. Overall, the passage was uneventful, and the only highlight written in the logbook was “caught and released barracuda.”
Passage Summary:
Duration 1 day 8:28 hours
Log miles 174 nmi, Avg speed 5.28 kt
Route miles 171 nmi, Avg VMG 5.19 kt
Track miles 173 nmi, Avg SOG 5.25 kt
Engines hours Port only 1:11, Both 1:28
Passing the familiar “shark tooth rock” on our way into Vava’u
Our track into Vava’u to the Port Maurelle anchorage
Satellite image of Port Maurelle
Gresham Family Exodus 