Crossing Fiji at Night, Oh No!
Sailing from Savusavu to Port Denarau normally is an easy 3-day trip with overnight stops every evening in welcoming bays. We did this trip twice in 2011. The prob [...]
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For Want of a Windlass!
Monday, May 9th – After several beautiful blue sky with puffy white cloud days, today is overcast. Our plans to leave the Bay of Islands to anchor below the villa [...]
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Flower Pots and Toadstools
Our world is a very noisy place! So used to its constant hum, that fact had never entered The First Mate’s consciousness until we moved to Telluride in 1999. For three mont [...]
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A Fine Introduction to the Lau Group
The Lau Archipelago is listed by Forbes Magazine as one of the 12 Most Beautiful Places in the World, and that is where Avante is headed this morning. The islands are pr [...]
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The Gift of Selective Memory
Saturday, April 23 – The Captain returns from the Copra Shed Marina office fuming. He had gone there to pay our bill prior to departure and was asked, quite noncha [...]