We are currently on Manihi Atoll in the Tuamotus. We had a slow 5 day crossing from the Marquises to Manihi , about 480 miles. The first day and a half was in great winds on the beam and we flew along nicely and then the wind died to very light from NE. so we moved along at 1.5 to 3 knots and did some motodring
We arrived at the pass entrance to Manihi an hour before slack and had to motor hard against current to get into the lagoon, getting slowed down to 1.3 knots and weaving back and forth trying to stay in the center of the narrow channel, surf was crashing on rocks on each side of the pass, and coral reefs on each side as we entered. We were through in about 15 minutes and then had an easy motor over to our anchorage in 60ft. more later
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Tagish
36ft Brent Swain steel sloop
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- Tagish
- Tagish is a 36' Brent Swain design steel sloop with Canadian's, Brian and Dorothy on board. Built using the origami method of folded steel. It has 'keel cooling' using the skeg which holds 10 gallons of cooland/antifreeze like a car and using pump in engine is circulated for cooling. It also uses a dry exhaust for better reliability. So no water brought into boat for engine, no impellors or heat exchangers or sea water strainers to mess up. The anchor windlass is manual only, with 200' of 5/16 hi test chain and 100ft of 3/4 nylon on the drum which is mounted on deck. Tagish is named after a lake in the Yukon, Northern Canada where we had a cabin as children. See 2 short video clips of boat sailing-goto older posts in blog at March 4/2011.
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