georgebackhus on July 28th, 2001

 After nearly a week in the “big smoke”, Port Vila, we were provisioned up and ready to get back out to visit some of Vanuatu’s more remote islands. Vila is quite nice with its calm and protected anchorage, nice waterfront cafes and restaurants, good shopping and continental touches, but we were ready for some more [...]

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georgebackhus on July 13th, 2001

Anchored in Port Resolution on the lovely island of Tanna, a week passed us by in no time. On Monday 11 June, we got ourselves underway and made a short hop to the island of Aniwa, situated about 20 short miles to the northeast. Just to clarify, short miles are downwind and long miles are [...]

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georgebackhus on July 6th, 2001

Early Sunday Morning, we sailed out of Noumea and stopped in the spacious and well-protected Baie du Prony. Prony is situated just inside the barrier reef from Havannah Pass, the main shipping route into New Caledonia’s huge lagoon from the east.
We sailed out at first light on Monday morning and began a very fast, wet [...]

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