Tag: reef pass

Bad news

Posted on by Lanos Kai
  What a disaster. Slade is on the radio, radioing all boats in Nanumea to find an alternator belt. So far we have been extremely unlucky, all our spare belts are a size to big. The belts are per... Read More

MAYDAY

Posted on by Lanos Kai
MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY this is *Reef Slayer, Reef Slayer, Reef Slayer We have run aground on the reef pass. MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY. What followed next was chaos, local boats loaded up with people, took of... Read More

Nanumea entrance

Posted on by Lanos Kai
The waves are breaking across the reef pass in to Nanumea. We sail up and down trying to get a good look into the pass. Its narrow very narrow. We call exodus on the radio, Tim is kind enough to come ... Read More

Reef Breakers

Posted on by Lanos Kai
How lucky are the kids and I, most likely the luckiest girls alive. We just got our first taste of anchoring off a reef pass. For three hours we pitched and forked and rocked and rolled, in every dire... Read More