Pacific · Rapa Nui
Easter Island
The passage to Easter Island, anchorages, storms, formalities, moai and life around Rapa Nui.
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We’re Leaving for Easter Island!
We’re leaving for Easter Island! Right now. The chain the captain is hauling in is already clanking. Extraordinary, but true! It was yesterday, of all days, that the local shop ran out of…
From the Galápagos to Easter Island. Days 1–3
From the Galápagos to Easter Island. Days 1–3 Sent via satellite link. A good speed is 2 knots. Even one and a half is good too. Because there is no wind. On 17 April, we left the harbour…
Galápagos–Easter Island Passage. Days 4–5
Galápagos–Easter Island passage. Beating into the wind. Days 4–5. Sent via satellite link. At last, we’ve caught the trade winds. The only trouble is that their direction here is strangel…
Latest News from On Board. Passage to Easter Island. Day 6
Latest news from on board. Passage to Easter Island, Day 6. Sent via satellite. Hence the solid block of text. BUT! Anyway, friends. The crew of the round-the-world yacht Lady Mary have g…
Pacific Ocean Passage. We Continue Battling Our Way towards the Most Mysterious Island on the Planet. One Week at Sea
Pacific Ocean passage. We continue battling our way towards the most mysterious island on the planet. One week at sea. A strong southerly wind is pushing us west, no matter how hard we tr…
Passage to Easter Island. Day Nine into the Wind
Passage to Easter Island. Day Nine into the Wind Why do so few people live their dream? Because living your dream is hard—I’ve been thinking about that line from the film Territory since …
A Day of Adventures. Day 11 of the Passage to Easter Island
A Day of Adventures. Day 11 of the Passage to Easter Island If only I had known how this day would begin, I would never have dared air out the yacht after keeping her sealed up for days. …
Passage to Easter Island. 12 Days in the Ocean. New Plans from the Crazy Castaways
Passage to Easter Island. 12 Days in the Ocean. New Plans from the Crazy Castaways While the children are asleep, the ship’s senior officers have decided to crack open a little tin of Bri…
Two Weeks in the Pacific Ocean. Passage to Easter Island
Two Weeks in the Pacific Ocean. Passage to Easter Island. Calms, a red star, food supplies and little islands of rubbish In the morning, as usual, I check that everything is where it shou…
16 Days in the Ocean. Passage to Easter Island. Headwinds Again
16 Days in the Ocean. Passage to Easter Island. Headwinds Again A foggy morning in the Pacific Ocean. The headwind has started up again. “Tea, Andrey?” the first mate asks gloomily, antic…
Passage to Easter Island. Days 17–18
Heave-ho, heave-ho—we just can’t haul it in How we fished for marlin. A Pacific Ocean passage to Easter Island. Days 17–18. The Turnip, Hemingway-style. ~~~~~ _/) ~~~~~ _/) ~~~~~ _/) ~~~~…
An Uninhabited Island with a Magnetic Anomaly. Day 19
An uninhabited island with a magnetic anomaly. Passage to Easter Island, Day 19 The electronic chart of the Pacific Ocean around Easter Island and its uninhabited neighbour says: look for…
Easter Island. 21 Days in the Ocean
Easter Island. 21 Days in the Ocean “Come on, come on, hurry up and become a human being!” “That means, at sea, hurry up and become a sailor!” Nastya and I bawl as we bounce around on the…
Victory Day Over a Three-Week Passage Against the Wind—and Victory Day on Easter Island. Transmitted by Satellite
Victory Day over a three-week passage against the wind—and Victory Day on Easter Island. Transmitted by satellite The Cap says, “Write a post.” “But how am I supposed to write when we can…
Easter Island. Visas for Sailors
Easter Island. Visas for Sailors. Clearing in by yacht, the whims of the weather, and passages from one end of the island to the other. Attentive officials, a radio that never falls silen…
Easter Island: Our First Foray Ashore and Its First Mysteries
Our first foray ashore did not happen straight away—we spent several days waiting for a weather window. Here: the only village, the moai statues, people, shops and gardening. Sent via sat…
Second Foray onto Easter Island
Second foray onto Easter Island. Passage to the sheltered side. Anakena Bay, a sacred place of the ancient Rapa Nui people. The yacht as a swing at anchor. Descendants of cannibals, both …
The volcano and waiting for the storm. How the captain skipped the volcano to sew sails while we met some Russian travellers. Where to hide the electronics and what to do with the anchor during a nighttime storm
The volcano and waiting for the storm. How the captain skipped the volcano to sew sails while we met some Russian travellers. Where to hide the electronics and what to do with the anchor …
Storm off Easter Island. A night at anchor in a poorly sheltered bay, in 45 knots of wind blowing against a 3-metre swell… The beginning is in the previous report.
Storm off Easter Island. A night at anchor in a poorly sheltered bay, in 45 knots of wind blowing against a 3-metre swell. The beginning is in the previous report. At half past nine in th…
How Our Neighbours Ripped Their Anchor Windlass Clean Out and Were About to Abandon Their Anchor, but We Saved Them
How Our Neighbours Ripped Their Anchor Windlass Clean Out and Were About to Abandon Their Anchor, but We Saved Them. “Pull the green line! Ease it! Chain up! Ahead! Stop! Astern! Pay out …
Easter Island—an Adventure for a Yachtsman
Easter Island—an Adventure for a Yachtsman. How we nearly tore off the bowsprit and tried to wrench out the anchor windlass, but came to our senses in time So, after a night of bucking ar…
There Are Plenty of Real Wild Ones… New Yachtsmen Blown to Easter Island. Losses and Finds. More Bucking at Anchor. And the Ancient Moai Giants
There are plenty of real wild ones! New yachtsmen have been blown to Easter Island. Losses and finds. More bucking at anchor. And the ancient moai giants Farewells and new neighbours In t…
Easter Island. How We Nearly Got Hauled Off by the Police
Rano Raraku—the quarries of Easter Island. How we nearly got hauled off by the police. Guardians of antiquities, crime and punishment. Kilometres of rough terrain, bushes and barbed-wire …
Hiking on Easter Island. Why the Armada de Chile Came. How the Cap’n Fixed the Wind Generator. The Peculiarities of Hiking Through Barbed Wire. Through the Surf in the Dinghy
Hiking on Easter Island Why the Armada de Chile Came. How the Cap’n Fixed the Wind Generator. The Peculiarities of Hiking Through Barbed Wire. Through the Surf in the Dinghy The beginning…
7 June. Easter Island. Getting Away Before the Storm
7 June Easter Island. Getting Away Before the Storm Today we’re leaving Easter Island for the no less peculiar little island of Pitcairn. Why the port is closed. How a wave broke over us.…
Easter Island by Yacht with Children. Moai. Storms. Natives
Easter Island by Yacht with Children. Statues. Storms. Natives Friends, here’s our freshly edited video! Mysterious colossi, the islanders’ dark history, and modern life on the most remot…