From Jaliut Atoll, SE Pass, 05degrees51N/169degrees31E To Kosrai, Federated States of Micronesia February 28 – 0200-0500 Starr left the SW Pass of Jaliut Atoll, Marshall Islands at 0945 on the morning of February 27. The sky was overcast and the winds were NE 15knts (on our starboard stern quarter). It was perfect weather to do a 400nm passage (2 days and nights with just Don and I on board), to Kosrae the eastern-most...
6-degrees4N/169degrees36E February 25 -1200 Roseanne (who spoke very good English), Sarah, an older woman (who didn’t speak) and two young boys just came out to Starr, at anchor off Imrodji Village on the North end of the Jaliut lagoon, to invite us to come ashore at 1800 (6pm) to be welcomed to the village. We arrived yesterday afternoon at 1500 after a slow and cautious trip from the SE Passage at Jabor, the...
February 25 – 1800 We went ashore at 6pm and were met by the wife of the minister of the Protestant Church, the first church built by missionaries in the Marshall Islands (1857). We unloaded some gifts that we had brought for the village and put it all into a wheelbarrow, which the Minister’s wife pushed to the communal gathering area behind the church, and we followed. We were seated in two white plastic chairs...
Jabor, Jaliut Atoll, RMI 5degrees55N/169degrees38E February 23, 2110 Jabor, Jaliut Atoll, a village with a population of 1023 people (including 400 boarding students at the Southern Islands High School) was running out of water; there has been little or no rain for months and everyone was very worried. The town was desperate enough for water that they were ready to ship in desalinated water at $3/gallon from Majuro, 125nm away. I asked Sylvester,...
Jabor, Jaliut Atoll, RMI 5-55N/169-38E February 22, 2010 When we arrived in Jabor, we had still had our three packages, which had been mailed to Majuro from family in the US, to deliver to the World Teach people in Jaliut. The first person we met upon going ashore was Sylvester Amram, the Associate Mayor. Sylvester promptly took us to the South Islands High School (the only High School in all of the...
Mili Atoll, Marshall Islands 6-degrees29N/171degrees46E February 19, 2110 It is too windy to go to the Village of Milimili; we are unable to deliver the US Mail Mili is an aqua colored lagoon, surrounded by reefs and obstacles, within a large atoll 88nm south of Majuro. The village, 14nm from Acharan Passage is called Milimili. We anchored, tucked within several reefs, off two islands about 7nm from the village. It took us 2 hours after...
Our friends and traveling companions Brian and Mary Alice O'Neill won the Sunday race here in Majuro! See the article here! To look at their web photo album go to:www.picasaweb.google.com/svshibui/hawaii ...
It’s 3:30 in the afternoon and I am ‘on watch’. The sky is light overcast, the winds are perfect 20knots off our stern, the seas are 1-3 feet with a gentle lull-a-by sway and the autopilot keeps a steady course of 240 degrees. Life is good. This is the 9th day of our 10 day journey from Honolulu to the Marshall Islands. And the only word that comes to mind as I look back on...
Dear friends. A number of days ago I asked for your advice as to whither we shave my head or not. I want to thank all of you for getting back with your input. Having heard from all three of you, the tally is as follows: Two of you voted for the shave One suggested we keep things as is. Thank you for your support. Don Ps. In order...
Passage from Honolulu, Hawaii to Majuro, Marshall Islands February 5 (Seattle)/February 6 (Majuro) Lat/Long-11degrees4N/179degrees33E What do you do all day when Starr is crossing an ocean? Often people ask me this question, in particular my friends who have never made an ocean passage. The days are both the same and varied, and 24hrs. slides by much too quickly. I will describe a “typical day”. My day starts at 0830 when I...