- Sailplan for 2010 Polynesian voyage
- Vutala Na Ua 2010
- Uto Ni Yalo - Update 1
- Uto Ni Yalo - Update 2
- Uto Ni Yalo - Update 3
- Uto Ni Yalo - Update 4
- Uto Ni Yalo - Update 5
- Uto Ni Yalo - Update 6
- Uto Ni Yalo - Update 7
- Uto Ni Yalo - Support, Friends in NZ
- Uto Ni Yalo - Vili's Finger
- Photos : Fiji to NZ leg
- Moce, NZ (Update 10)
- The Journey Continues (Update 11)
- Zen and the Art of Fishing (Update 12)
- Heading East (Update 13)
- The Crew Reports (Update 14)
- Uli and Life On The Seas (Update 15)
- Glorious Sun and then... (Update 16)
- Battling the Elements (Update 17)
- The Skipper Speaks (Update 18)
- Heading North! (Update 19)
- North Easter Blows (Update 20)
- Warm weather at last (Update 21)
- Becalmed (Update 22)
- Uto ni Yalo Song (Update 23)
- Raivavae Welcomes Us! (Update 24)
- Tahiti, Tourists, and Tamure (Update 25)
- Magical Motu Vaiemanu (Update 26)
- Moorea (Update 27)
- Moorea Welcome (Update 28)
- The legend of the Fe'e (Update 29)
- Papeete Welcome (Update 30)
- Missing Crew Members and Sad Goodbyes (Update 31)
- Siga Bibi Mataka (Update 32)
- Taputapuatea Marae (Update 33)
- Pufau Bay (Update 34)
- New Watch Captains (Update 35)
- Raro here we come! (Update 36)
- Carson's Story (Update 37)
- Avana Welcome (Update 38)
- Browns Beach BBQ (Update 39)
- Fiji Netball Visit (Update 40)
- Raro departure delayed (Update 41)
- Departing Raro (Update 42)
- Crew Swapping (Update 43)
- The origin of the 'Tabua' (Update 44)
- Rotuma's Link with French Polynesia (Update 45)
- Fijian links to Samoa (Update 46)
- Uto ni Yalo's carvings (Update 47)
- The story of the Samoan Tattoo (Update 48)
- Uto ni Yalo in Samoa (Update 49)
- Tonga Time (Update 50)
- Last Stop (Update 51)
- Neiafu Harbour (Update 52)
- Come Welcome the Uto Ni Yalo Home!
- A Tongan Feast (Update 53)
- Homeward Bound (Update 54)
- Fiji, we are home. (Final Update)
- “Move your paddle silently through the water”
- SUV-AUK LEG Daily diary 11/3/11 (Update 02)
- SUV-AUK LEG Daily diary 12/3/11 (Update 03)
- Weather Update (Update 04)
- New Crew Comments (Update 05)
- SUV-AUK LEG Daily diary 13/3/11 (Update 06)
- SUV-AUK LEG Daily diary 14/3/11 (Update 07)
- New Crew Comments (Update 08)
- SUV-AUK LEG Daily diary 15/3/11 (Update 09)
- SUV-AUK LEG Daily diary 16/3/11 (Update 10)
- New Crew Comments (Update 11)
- SUV-AUK LEG Daily diary 17/3/11 (Update 12)
- SUV-AUK LEG Daily diary 18/3/11 (Update 13)
- SUV-AUK LEG Daily diary 19/3/11 (Update 14)
- Herb Kawainui Kane Condolence Message
- Youngest Crew Member
- Chartered into unchartered waters
- Talk to me
- Auckland Departure
- New Leg - Update 7
- New Leg - Update 8
- Day 9 Update
- New Leg - Update 10
- New Leg - Update 11
- New Leg - Update 12
- New Leg - Update 13
- Hawaii - Update 14
- Moce Hawaii
- N. Pacific Garbage Patch - Update 16
- Cleaning Up Update 17
- San Francisco beckons Report 18
- Jack Newells Story of the knowledge collecting trip to Lau
- FIVS crew departs Fiji for San Diego for the next leg of the voyage
- Report #1 - 2012 - Uto ni Yalo - The Journey Continues
- Report #2 - 2012
- Report #3 - 2012
- Report #4 - 2012 - The Ladies of the Uto ni Yalo
- Report #5 - 2012 - Meet the "Matua"
- Report #6 - 2012 - Sunday on board - to Cabrillos
- Report #7 - 2012 - Meet the Men of the Uto ni Yalo
Raro here we come! (Update 36)
Date: Wednesday 26th May
Time: 1700 hours Tahiti Time (GMT – 10 hours)
Position: 19*22..8’ South/154*29.6’ West
Bula Viti kei Rotuma
We continue to make good time towards Rarotonga and have now covered 235 nautical miles with 315 nautical miles to go.
The wind is Easterly at 25 knots and has stayed steady between 20 to 25 knots since we departed Raiatea.
This morning we raised the Genoa and dropped the Staysail for a couple of hours until we heard that the other canoes were changing back to their staysails. We then switched back to the Staysail and we are still averaging over 9 knots.
In the cloudy conditions, we can just make out four canoes on our stern plus the high mast of the support boat Foftein. This morning was nice and sunny but by mid morning it was beginning to get cloudy.
The swell is starting to build and the chop is getting more disorganised so the ride is a lot more bumpy this afternoon than it was this morning. The deck is continuously wet now and most of the crew have resorted to wet weather gear even though it is quite humid.
We have received the programme for our arrival in Raro and it looks pretty full on. The welcome is shaping up to be bigger than expected and will involve the local Fijian community.
Even the Prime Minister of the Cook Islands will be present to make a speech.
It is planned for us to make landfall at Avana (Muri Beach) but this will depend on the weather as Avana has a very small pass and it gets very rough along this coastline. I have done some great downwind paddles from Avana on a OC1 canoe so I know the pass well.
If the weather does not permit us to enter the Avana Pass, we will head to Avatiu Harbour where the cargo and fishing boats dock. The welcome ceremony will then be moved to Avatiu.
We continue to get messages of support through the website and received kind messages from Ratu Manoa’s daughter Litiana in London and Randy Thaman who was just in Tuvalu.
We also received a very nice message from Teamio Tuarau who sat at the Kava Bowl during our Kava Ceremony at Taputapuatea Marae. Teamio said he looked forward to our visit next year and to us spending more time sharing cultures.
It made everyone laugh when I read them the message as it was signed ‘Teamio Tuarau who sits like a Chinaman for the Kava Ceremony’, which is what I wrote in my report for the welcome on Raiatea.
It looks like being a rough night ahead.
Moce
Colin/Uto ni Yalo
Report by Satellite Phone courtesy of DIGICEL