SAILING BLIND IN REMOTE ISLANDS - Unscheduled night sail in Fiji - Ep 54

A huge thank you to those who help keep our boat afloat by supporting our creative process via Patreon. You can be part of the crew for less than the price of a coffee. https://www.patreon.com/CruisingKiwis SAILING BLIND IN REMOTE ISLANDS - Unscheduled night sail in Fiji If you'd like to support the creative process please take a look at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/CruisingKiwis When sailing in Fiji the golden rule is don't leave before 9am and be anchored by 4pm. That way the sun will help to show up shallow reef systems that are incorrectly or unbelievably missing from the Navionics charts. This evening we are breaking that rule. Sailing blind in the pitch black, unfamiliar territory. We are putting 100% trust in our GPS, and the electronic charts (mainly the Ovital, google maps setting which are more accurate). Not an ideal situation and not one we recommend. We wouldn't be in this mess if not for the fact that we left Makongai behind schedule. It's never good to have time pressures when sailing as it leads to choosing poor weather windows or pressing on when it's time to stop. But we are on a mission. Finn is flying in from NZ and we need to be there to welcome him home. On that note a huge thank you goes to Richard and Kylie Fulton who took Finn in to their home and their heart so that he could continue his schooling and rowing while in New Zealand. You guys rock! Music Cricket Farm – Bending spoons The Weatherspoons – A cautionary song David Mumford – Ball and chain Luna Keller – Packing my bags Who are we? In 1997, after a disastrous Olympic rowing campaign, Rob decided to row a seven-metre plywood boat, 2500 miles from Tenerife in the Canary Islands to Barbados in the Caribbean. It took 6 weeks and he and his rowing partner, Phil Stubbs, won the inaugural Atlantic Rowing Race. Skip forward to 2014, we invested in Javelot a 43 ft Fountaine Pajot catamaran. Armed only with Robert's 3 years of racing P class yachts from the age of 11 to 13, and Rachel's non existent sailing knowledge, we set off to learn the ropes of ocean sailing. We broke stuff, replaced stuff and got to know our boat before heading offshore with our three children, Finn 17, Declan 15 and Ivan 12, in tow. Through trial and error, we have become confident wayfarers, kind of. Our plan? To sail around the world, meet the locals and record our adventures. Part of the journey will be retracing Rob’s eldest brother Kerry’s travels at sea. Using Kerry’s original letters from the 1970’s we will re trace his movements from Australia through Indonesia and South East Asia to Cambodia where Kerry’s life was cut short after straying into Cambodian waters in 1978. Kerry and two friends were attacked by a Khmer Rouge gun boat, captured, tortured and executed. ***** Never stop wandering, never stop wondering. #TheCruisingKiwis