Sailing Catamaran: Arrived in Fiji

Countries visited by boat

1 nautical mile(nm)=1.86km

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Antigua & Barbuda.....61 nm

Australia...........1239 nm

Bahamas.......2009...529 nm

Bahamas.......2012...607 nm

British Indies

- Turks and Caicos

- ......2009..........45 nm

- Turks and Caicos

- ......2012.........478 nm

- Montserrat..........33 nm

Canary Ialands.......172 nm

Cape Verde.............5 nm

Colombia.............293 nm

Dominica..............37 nm

Dominican Republic...293 nm

Equator

- Galapagos............5 nm

Egypt................846 nm

Eritrea..............273 nm

Fiji...................5 nm

French Indies

- St-Marteen.2009....103 nm

- St-Marteen.2012....103 nm

- St-Barth............19 nm

- Guadeloupe.........124 nm

- Martinique..........67 nm

French Polynesia...1,043 nm

Grenada...............85 nm

Greece...............558 nm

Gibraltar.............37 nm

Indonesia..........1,656 nm

Italia...............672 nm

Malaysia.............449 nm

Maldives...............5 nm

Netherlands Antilles

- Bonaire............ 44 nm

- Curacao............ 63 nm

- Aruba.............. 55 nm

Maroc................146 nm

Panama...............692 nm

Puerto Rico (US).....222 nm

Samoa..................5 nm

St-Kitt and Nevis.....61 nm

St-Vincent............80 nm

Singapore.............47 nm

Spain................818 nm

Sri Lanka..............5 nm

Sudan................337 nm

Thailand ............166 nm

Turkey...............419 nm

USA................1,760 nm

Vanuatu................5 nm

Venezuela............391 nm

Virgin Islands (US)

...........2009.......21 nm

Virgin Islands (US)

...........2012......107 nm

Virgin Islands (US)...21 nm

Yemen................457 nm

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46 countries......15,764 nm

Ocean Passages

1 nautical mile(nm)=1.86km

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Pacific ocean

- Panama to

....Galapagos.......880 nm

- Galapagos to

....Marquesas......3050 nm

- French Polynesia to

....Samoa..........1179 nm

- Samoa to

....Fiji............574 nm

- Fiji to

....Vanuatu.........711 nm

- Vanuatu to

....Australia.....1,320 nm

Indian ocean

- Darwin to

....Kupang..........476 nm

- Thailand to

....Sri Lanka.....1,150 nm

- Sri Lanka to

....Maldives........457 nm

- Maldives to

....Yemen..........1503 nm

Atlantic ocean

- Rabat Morocco to

....Canary Islands..459 nm

- Canary Islands to

....Cape Verde...s..866 nm

- Cape Verde to

....Antigua.......2,111 nm

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3 oceans.........14,736 nm

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Arrived in Fiji

We arrived at the town of Savusavu on the island of Vanua Levu in Fiji, from Samoa, on July 12th, 2010 after a passage of 574 nautical miles (1068 Km) that took us 4 days and 3 hours for an overall average speed of 5.8 knots. It was a relatively smooth ride if it wasn’t of the rainstorm we encountered during our trip and yet another piece of our boomvang that snapped. Fortunately the storm lasted only about 2 hours and the wind gusts were only up to 27 knots so nothing to be too worried about other than the fact that the cockpit was all wet after that. As of the boomvang it seems that this is the story of our life in the Pacific. Every pieces of this equipment break one after the other, even the main cable, which was rated for up to 16,000 lbs, snapped on our last passage to Samoa. There is so much tension in this equipment that every time something breaks it comes with such a huge BANG that Danielle now calls it the boombang! This time it was the shackle holding the base of the lower block that snapped from fatigue. It took only 10 minutes to fix but this is really getting on our nerves. The plan is to change the whole thing once in Australia with much stronger parts in the hope that after that we will be able to straighten our main sail without worrying that the whole thing falls apart at every wave! On a different topic we hope you find our courtesy flags nice for since Panama we stopped buying the flags and started making them ourselves with our turbo Sailrite sewing machine. Fiji was quite a challenge and the result may not be perfect but, all things considered, is not too bad.One last thing to tickle your brain. We left Samoa on July 7th, 2010 and arrived 4 days later on July 12th, 2010. Do the math and you’ll see that something is wrong. The reason is that during this passage we crossed the date change line (180° longitude) and since we were sailing west we never saw the day of July 9th, 2010. Since we cannot travel in time the question you have to answer is where did this day go? Please send us an email with the answer. For the purists let’s assume we crossed the line at exactly midnight, but this is semantic.

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Arrived in Fiji