Anything that eats insects is ok in my book, released without harm to keep eating lol
Entry into biggest fish caught
SY DREAMER 🇺🇸 David & Gerne – Caliber 40lrv’
5) PROOF OF LIFE ! CANCEL BOLO
Just à quick note to thank everyone for looking out for me when I want ‘missing’. All that happened was that a rogue wave managed to find itself through a rook hatch and dumped a bath tub of water on my IridiumGo. Sorry for the worry I caused but I am overwhelmed by the response from you guys. Thank you so much. All the best from Nuku Hiva. Tomas
SY SAOIRSE 🇺🇸 Tomas – Dufour 40 e’
6) CONGRATULATIONS LAND HOOOO !
NAVASANA
ZELDA
MEHALA
WANDERLUST
TRAVELLER
SAMADHI
FIRST LIGHT
CERULIAN
FREYA
MONSOON
Landfall in Hiva Oa 🇵🇫 FP and South Pacific Posse catch up in Hiva Oa.
SY Cerulean SY Zelda SY Freya SY Mehalah SY Monsoon
Nawi Island is located in the beautiful Fiji Islands.It will feature an International Superyacht Marina, which will have 132 marina berths, including 21 superyacht slips (up to 85m). The marina has been designed and built up to category 5 cyclone resistance rating.
The South Pacific Posse is planning a get together at Nawi on Saurday Aug 26 2023. A week before the infamous Musket Cove regatta. Nawi will be offering entertainment, markets, kava tasting and discounts on berths, water sport activities, restaurant & bar orders, with Pacific Posse hosting a Pig on the spit and rum delights.
The fully serviced marina will include “plug in” services through utility pedestals to water, sewerage pump out, power, fuel & gas facilities, plus 24hr security, complimentary Wifi, a.m.o..
16° 46.5716′ S 179° 19.9533′ E – Nawi Island Savusavu 🇫🇯 Fiji
FREE 1 MONTH Honorary Membership FOR South Pacific Posse
If any members of the Pacific Posse arrive at Suva I am happy to inform you that the RSYC
will recognize them as a bonafide member of a club and grant them the privileges as if they were members of a Yacht/Marine Club!
Any visiting member of the Pacific Posse will be granted Honorary Membership for up to 1 month free of charge.
Any visiting yachts can apply for temporary mooring @ FJ$10 / day ( <US$5.00).
Patrick Todd R•S•Y•C
Foster Road, Walu Bay 0 Suva City, Fiji
http://www.rsyc.org.fj/
+679 992 2921
gm@rsyc.org.fj
14) FLEET TRACKING & PREDICT WIND PRO NOW WITH SAT AIS
About Tracking:
Designed to give interesting parties an overview. For specific vessel details including their floatplan, latest updates, changes, positions and specific location related questions please contact each vessel directly. If you are on passage let us know and the fleet can monitor your progress.
16) HISTORIC PORTS ⚓ OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC PORT HAVANNAH EFATE 🇻🇺 VANUATU
An SOC Seagull at Havannah Harbour Efate ( NEW HEBRIDES ) 1943
With Japanese forces establishing bases on Guadalcanal which threatened the sea route between the U.S. and Australia, Admiral King distributed the joint basic plan for the occupation and defense of Efate on 20 March 1942. Under its terms the US Army was to defend Efate and support the defense of ships and positions. The US Navy’s task was: to construct, administer and operate a naval advance base, seaplane base, and harbor facilities; to support Army forces in the defense of the island; to construct an airfield and at least two outlying dispersal fields; to provide facilities for the operation of seaplane-bombers
On 25 March 1942, the Army sent about 500 men to Efate from Noumea, and the 4th Defense Battalion, 45th Marines, arrived on 8 April. Elements of the 1st Naval Construction Battalion arrived on Efate on 4 May 1942.
A Peculiar State of Affairs
To say that this archipelago nation found itself with a particularly exceptional state of affairs during WWII is an understatement. When France fell during the Second World War, the French side of the Condominium where technically at war with their other half, Great Britain. The two sides of the Condominium had notoriously been at add odds with each other up until the dissolution of the agreement in 1980 when Vanuatu claimed full independence.
Seaplane Base
A detachment of Seabees also went north to Havannah Harbour to construct a seaplane base to serve the squadron of PBY Catalina’s based there. The Seabees built two seaplane ramps, once again of coral, surfaced with Marsden Matting, and provided buoys for mooring 14 seaplanes. In addition to the ramps and moorings, two small piers, two nose hangars, one 40 feet (12 meters) by 100 feet (30 metres) seaplane workshop, four 5,000 gallon (19,000 liters) underground gasoline tanks, and housing facilities for 25 officers and 210 men in Quonset huts were constructed. By June 1, the PBYs began operating from the new base, bombing Japanese positions on Guadalcanal.
USS Denver (CL-58) with SOC Seagull in Havanah Harbor off Efate 🇻🇺 Vanuatu
The cruiser’s paint is heavily weathered at the bow and amidships with a fresh coat of gray paint applied to the stern
A museum in Havana harbor collects the World War II Cocoa Cola Bottles which Allied sailors chucked overboard while stationed there.
The bottom of a 1940’s Coco Cola Bottle with the embossed state symbol
Vanuatu 🇻🇺 is in Good Nautical
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