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As usual, it’s been a while. But then again, we’ve been a bit busy with lots of sailing. From the last post (Kiribati) we made our way up to Majuro, in the Marshall Islands. After a 2-week wait for a permit to visit outer islands, we finagled one and visited Ailingilalap for Christmas. The next…

*pronounced Kiribas – there is no “S” in the written language, so “ti” has the “S” sound- eg Kiribati being pronounced Kiribas, or Betio = Beso ) Language lesson complete. Remember how that last blog post ended with us thinking that the south pacific convergence zone (SPCZ = squalls and icky weather) was south of…

From Tonga, a quick and truly wonderful sail took us north from Tonga about 350nm to Uvea- Wallis Island. The sailing was as good as it gets, a beam reach in 15ish knots of wind with dead flat seas and reasonable temperatures for 3 days. We couldn’t go over 5.5 knots and still arrive in…