S/V Morning Light

Monday afternoon I got my hands on the package with the latest gadgets for Morning Light.  This included an Iridium satellite phone (for use in emergency).  And a new AIS (Automated Identification System) included an active VHF splitter (to avoid making the same mistake as last time: blowing up the AIS when transmitting with the […]

Well, not much news really.  I have been in touch with the operator of the boat (KCB2) that hit me.  The captain came talk to me Wednesday morning, after two previous no shows.  He did acknowledge that he had pulled my anchor out, so at least we did not have to argue about who is […]

Had the experience that proves once more that you are safer on a boat in the middle of the Ocean than near land.Thursday afternoon I was at the Yacht Club shooting some pool, when the sky turned dark.  There was a squall coming our way, I hesitated to go to the boat before it would […]

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Coming into the Solomon Islands, view of Guadalcanal.

Oily sea on a day with no wind.

Some of the foreign fishing boats anchored off Honiara.

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