G'Day Mates, Flashback a couple weeks. "Every Friday" afternoon there is a yacht race in the main harbor in Vava'u. Ha. In the roughly 2 months that I was...
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Oct 31, 2006 4:15 pm
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G'Day Everybody, It has been almost two months since I have written -- a long time. I have been in Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga, for almost exactly two months. A...
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Nov 1, 2006 4:46 pm
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G'Day Mates, We are still in the northern group of the Ha'api. There is a huge high pressure system rolling through south of us. It's counterclockwise wind...
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Nov 8, 2006 3:47 am
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G'Day Mates, Still in the Lifuka Sub-Group of the Ha'api Group of Tonga. The wind is abating because the Big Fat High to south has finally moved past. It's...
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Nov 12, 2006 4:51 pm
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G'Day Mates, We had a very nice dive on Wickham Reef yesterday. It is a reef about 5 miles offshore from any of the surrounding islands. It pops up out of...
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Nov 13, 2006 4:26 am
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G'Day Mates, Commodore and Nancy Tomkins on S/V 'Flashgirl' sent me the following web address: ...
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Nov 18, 2006 1:39 am
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G'Day Mates, Last year when we entered New Zealand they confiscated a lot of perfectly good food and incinerated it. Their goal is to protect their country...
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Nov 20, 2006 9:21 pm
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G'Day Mates, Well, I predicted a walk around the island of Numuka with a local guide. That did not happen. We woke up to unfavorable looking weather. I needed...
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Nov 24, 2006 11:52 pm
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G'Day Mates, We have had a wonderful 3 days in Kelefesia. The place is gorgeous. The anchorage is tiny, surrounded by coral studded reefs on 3 sides, the...
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Nov 27, 2006 6:10 am
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G'Day Mates, We sailed from Kelefesia in the Ha'api to the little motu of Tau in Tongatapu the day before yesterday. Then yesterday we sailed from Tau past...
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Nov 27, 2006 10:57 pm
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G'Day Mates, I met Malaia at the resort on Pangaimotu Island, where we are anchored. Like most Tongans she is very friendly. We got to talking at the bar in...
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Nov 30, 2006 4:41 pm
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G'Day Mates, We are on our way to N. Minerva Reef. Position is S 21 33.4 W 175 22.7 at 1200 2-Dec local time, 2300 1-Dec UTC. We left early because the frontal...
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Dec 1, 2006 11:39 pm
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G'Day Mates, 130 miles to Minerva Reef. About 1/2 between N. Minerva Reef and Tongatapu. Position is S 22 21 W 177 02 at 0700 3-Dec local time, 1800 2-Dec UTC....
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Dec 3, 2006 9:47 pm
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G'Day Mates, Current position is S 22 46 W 178 19 at 1900 3-Dec local time, 0600 3-Dec UTC. Southerly winds and swells have pushed us north of the rhumbline to...
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Dec 3, 2006 11:52 pm
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G'Day Mates, After 300+ miles and two days of beating into southerly winds and swells we have arrived safely at Minerva Reef at 1000 4-Dec local time, 2100...
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Dec 4, 2006 3:26 pm
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G'Day Mates, Still snug as a bug in a rug at N. Minerva Reef. ... Both North and South Minerva Reefs are used as anchorages by yachts traveling between New...
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Dec 5, 2006 9:21 pm
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G'Day Mates, Yesterday was a fine day here in paradise. Glenn and Jim had a wonderful morning dive on the reef wall outside the lagoon. This time we went to...
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Dec 6, 2006 4:48 am
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G'Day Mates, I'm writing you again, today. This time about the weather. Well ... we were able to stop here at Minerva because there was a big gale off the...
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Dec 6, 2006 2:18 pm
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G'Day Mates, Ken reminded me that last year we were overflown by a P3 Orion, not a C130. The boys are not so sure now. :-) Today we moved from N. Minerva reef...
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Dec 7, 2006 10:18 pm
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G'Day Mates, This is "guest writer" Jim's submission to the Learjet Journal. I think you will enjoy it. ... During our last days anchored near Nuka'alofa, a...
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Dec 8, 2006 2:44 pm
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G'Day Mates, We've just heard from our weather router. I was worried about a low pressure system that is forecast to appear south of our position here at S....
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Dec 8, 2006 5:37 pm
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G'Day Mates, ... Departed from S. Minerva this am. Position S 24 16.4 E 179 54.5 at 09-Dec 1530 local (09-Dec 0230 UTC). Wind is 7 knots from 90 (ENE). Swells...
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Dec 9, 2006 6:01 am
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G'Day Mates, We had a nice trip from S. Minerva for the first day. We motor sailed, then gave up on that and dropped the main altogether because the seas were...
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Dec 10, 2006 9:47 pm
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G'Day Mates, We are still out here. :-) At 0800 12-Dec local time (1900 11-Dec UTC) our position was S 25 19 W 175 50. My brother Ed tells me that neither...
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Dec 11, 2006 9:45 pm
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G'Day Mates, At 2100 12-Dec local time (Tonga) (0800 12-Dec UTC) our position was S 26 41 E 175 17. No more waves the size of tall buildings. Yippee!!! We wind...
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Dec 12, 2006 5:11 pm
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G'Day Mates, At 0700 14-Dec local time (1800 13-Dec UTC) our position was S 30 50 E 174 47. That is roughly 260 miles north of Opua. Our ETA in Opua is about...
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Dec 14, 2006 4:17 am
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Howdie, Arrived safe and sound at the customs quarantine dock in Opua at 1am 16-Dec local time. On our way in today we caught 4 small Big Eye Tuna (Ahi), saw a...
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Dec 15, 2006 2:37 pm
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G'Day Mates, Grant and Kurt rented a car and drove to Auckland to catch their flights home the morning after our arrival here in Opua. Jim and I are leaving in...
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Dec 18, 2006 5:55 pm
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Apr 9, 2007 3:42 pm
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I am now to be referred to as Dr. Jenkins haha ;) Took me about a month to get fully accredited, but after ringing these ppl 1 770 621-2634 they got me setup ...
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