August 2011
Cruising with a rowing dinghy
Almost all cruising boats have dinghies with gasoline outboards. Maybe one boat in twenty rows their dinghy. We've been living aboard full time, mostly at anchor and mostly in the tropics for going on four years. So we have a few thoughts to share. If you're going to row your dinghy, you'll need a dinghy […]
Catching rain
We've been catching rain to fill our water tanks on Scream for two years now. We've actually caught rain about a dozen times, and we've tried about another dozen times when it didn't rain enough. Rain water accounts for about half of our annual water, and most of our water while cruising. We take on […]
Denarau
In many ways Port Denarau marina in Fiji is the best marina we have ever visited. Denarau is a tour ship wharf with an upscale mall co-located with a marina. There are a half dozen restaurants, a grocery, drug store, and a full set of marine services, including a 20 tonne travel lift. These services […]
Yaqaga
The island of Yaqaga, pronounced and sometimes misspelled as Yanqanga, is the most beautiful place where we have been in Fiji. Yaqaga has small but good anchorage near the eastern end of the north shore at 16 34.71S 178 36.81E. We anchored there in 15m, sand bottom. There is excellent shelter from the south, some […]