1) NEW CALEDONIA OPENS UP 2) SOUTH PACIFIC POSSE GROW TO 31 YACHTS FROM 13 FLAG STATES3) RIVERGATE MARINA 🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA SPONSORS THE SOUTH PACIFIC POSSE
1) NEW CALEDONIA 🇦🇺 OPENS UP
Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre Noumea designe by Renzo Piana
Our maritime borders to New Caledonia which boasts the worlds largest continuous barrier reef are finally open!
Forms needed for entry:
-Medical Health declaration
-Border control temperatures to be sent back to us 48 hrs and 1 hr prior to arrival
-Every person should send us their vaccination certificate prior to arrival.
A test will have to be done 2 days after arrival (48hrs)
Brisbane is striking distance of the renowned Tangalooma Ship Wreck Bay l and Moreton Island
4) ENTRY INTO BIGGEST FISH CAUGHT
To put the catch in perspective Chris lies next to the fish head
SV SEAGLUB 🇺🇸 Chris - Hylas 46′
Captain Chris this season's lead vessel SY SEAGLUB currently sailing in Fiji
5) PUERTO VILLAMIL 🇪🇨 GALAPAGOS
Puerto Villamil is a small port village sion the southeastern edge ofIsla Isabela in the Galapagos Islands.
Traffic jam in Villamil Galapapgos.On
the southwestern edge of town a boardwalk was created by the park with
assistance of US Aid. At the end of the walkway is the Tortoise Breeding
Center which was built in order to help preserve the many species
of Isabela Tortoises.
It leads through mangrove environments passing along saltwater lagoons
filled with flamingo, black-winged stilts, Hudsonian whimbrels, Bahama
pintails, and gallinules that search the lagoons for shrimp.
Poza de los Flamingos is a lake in the western part of the town where flamingos can be observed.
The untouched shore of Isla Isabela
To
the southeast of town are a series of small islets including one known
as Las Tintoreras where a colony of white tip sharks can often be seen
resting in the lava channel
SY IBEX 🇦🇹 Florian & Vicky - Sunbeam 42′
6) SOUTH PACIFIC POSSE AWARDS CATEGORIES
HERE ARE THE CATEGORIES
BIGGEST FISH CAUGHT* ✔
PICTURE OF THE YEAR ✔
SPEEDY AWARD – SEVENSTAR AWARD ✔
THE CAPTAIN RON AWARD ✔
MOST UNWELCOME VISITOR ONBOARD ✔
HIGHEST WIND RECORDED ✔
SPIRIT OF EXPLORATION ✔
GALLEY GOD(ESS) ✔
GOOD SAMARITAN OF THE YEAR ✔
NEWLY ADDED – BOAT YOGA POSE OF THE YEAR ✔
*no bill-fish
The Bora Bora Yacht Club 🇵🇫
16° 29'.3433' S 151° 45.5783' W A suitable setting for a South Pacific Posse Sunset Rum Party
🇦🇺 Rivergate Marina and Boatyard - Brisbane - Australia
Advanced yacht services available in Australia.Rivergate’s
shipyard carries out more than 500 haul-outs per year, making it one of
the busiest shipyards in the Southern Hemisphere
8) SOUTH PACIFIC POSSE SPONSORS
PREDICT WIND
SEVENSTAR YACHT TRANSPORT
CENTENARIO PANAMA CANAL AGENTS
YACHT AGENTS GALAPAGOS
YACHT SERVICES NUKU HIVA
NOUMEA YACHT SERVICES
SAFE HARBOR SOUTH BAY MARINA EVENT CENTER
WESTMARINE PRO
SAILMAIL
OCEAN TACTICS WEATHER ROUTING
9) MEET THE FLEET
SY KISMET 🇺🇸 Kevin - Passport 41′currently at 02º 28.261 N 124º 07.788 W
Although
the Cook Islands operates on the New Zealand dollar, there is still
some Cook Islands dolalrs in circulation that is equal in value to NZD.
The
$3 note which is more of a collectors or novelty item. These can be
picked up from the Rarotonga Philatelic Bureau or given as change when
paying departure tax. The official Cook Islands currency is the New Zealand dollar.
In
terms of cost of living in the Cook Islands, its price point is fairly
middle range in that it is a little more expensive than Fiji but a lot
less than French Polynesia and Tahiti. Part of the Cook Islands economy
is the VAT or Value Added Tax. Charged at 12.5% of the price, the tax is
added at the point of sale to almost everything however refunds are
available for tourists upon exiting the country.
Sevenstar
is the world’s leading provider of yacht shipping services on a
lift-on, lift-off basis. Sevenstar has access to the Spliethoff fleet of
over 120 company owned vessels. With an impressive 1,500+ transports
per year, they are calling over 100 ports in more than 40 countries
worldwide.
For a quote with the Panama Posse discount please contact Kris Caren
During World War II many lagoons and closed harbors where blasted open to allow vessels to enter
The
tight Pass into Hunga Valetoakakau ( # 13) is 30 foot wide - 12.5
feet deep cut at high tide. Located at 18° 41.7216' S 174°
08.1816' W
Wayward Wind a 11' draft schooner made it in with help from Captain Kurt.
Anchor inside a dormant volcanic caldera in the large depression formed after a volcano erupts and collapses.
The
archipelago of Vava'u - a hand drawn Moorings map which uses numbers to
make identifying locations easier for Palangi's . Ta
pan-Polynesian term for a white person or Caucasian. The term has gained
widespread use throughout much of western Polynesia including Tonga,
Tokelau, Tuvalu, 'Uvea and Futuna.
Aerial view of a portion of the Vava'u Archipelago in northern Tonga
Don
Francisco Mourelle de la Rúa, commanding the Spanish frigate Princesa,
was the first European to come to Vavaʻu, which he did on 4 March 1781.
He charted Vavaʻu as Martín de Mayorga, naming it after the man who was
the Viceroy of New Spain at that time. Captain James Cook had
known about the islands a decade earlier, but the people in Haʻapai had
told him it would be no good for him to go there. they told him there
was no harbour. ( THIS WAS A LIE ) They may have told him this to
dissuade him from going there; but Cook heeded their advice.
As
it turned out, Mourelle found excellent anchoring, in Vavaʻu, which he
desperately needed, because he had failed to find a harbour at the last
two places he had tried to land, Fonualei (Bitterness island) and Late.
He gave the harbour at Vavaʻu the name Port of Refuge, although his original port of refuge had been the bay on the west coast of the main island, near Longomapu.
Twelve
years later, in 1793, Alessandro Malaspina visited the area for a
month, following up on Mourelle’s investigations, and formally claiming
the islands for Spain.
Captain Cook and the 'Friendly Islands
13) PANAMA CANAL AGENT CENTENARIO CONSULTING ERICK GALVEZ
To
arrange for transit with the Panama Canal Authority please contact Eric
Galvez our dedicated Panama Canal agent and sponsor of the Panama Posse
and the Pacific Posse
With few cruisers in far flung places friendly rendezvous' on each other's yachts are the norm - prepare to be boarded ;-) SY Reflections on approach in Lamen Bay Vanuatu
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