N 06° 57.628 E 158° 12.063 Yesterday, in the early morning I checked my emails especially for a reply from the US dealer of factory the French manufacturer of the furler. Unfortunately no reply. However, I got a reply from Privilege about information on what needs to be done to open the forestay to exchange…

N 06° 57.634 E 158° 12.059 On the 15th, after a noisy night beside the 24/7 generator running Lady Pohnpei, the officials of bio-security, customs, port authorities, and immigration came to clear is in. Then we moved with MaRe towards the end of the bay where we dropped the hook in a green and quiet…

N 06° 58.702 E 158° 12.183 … on Pohnpei harbor at the clearance dock, alongside of MV Lady Pohnpei. We made the sail on 3 days and just had enough wind for it. The wind was a bit on the weak side. I would have preferred something just above 20 KN. However this is sailing.…

…. and hammered on unbreakable cockpit floor that I was afraid he breaks today. What happened? We sat down for another delicious dinner. As we talked about fishing and the fish which got off of the hook a few hours before I said, “This is now the moment we always got a bite when crossing…

N 06° 35.283 E 159° 30.363 Wind is constant in direction but got a bit tired. So waves are down to a 2 m swell and windwaves are below 1.5 m. MaRe consistently makes her double track directly to the next WPT, NW of Pohnpei. If the wind doesn’t get more tired we will be…

On the day before our departure, we hitched to Tofol, on the other side of bay, where the waterline is fully covered with mangroves so we can’t go by tender. We needed to make outbound clearance with customs. From immigration we didn’t need anything because we have the stamps for Micronesia in our passports. That’s…

N 05° 45.305 E 161° 47.866 We are making good progress towards Pohnpei. Since lifting the hook we made 83 NM until 0500 today. We set the genoa with the barber hauler at the NE corner of Kosrae and most likely we don’t need to change is until the N corner of Pohnpei. The swell…

N 05° 24.568 E 162° 59.154 Just before 1100 we lifted the hook and I turned MaRe into the old track of our arrival. At the pass we had winds and waves fully on the nose. Am almost 2 swell rolls from ä almost E. But since we passed the WPT “Kosrae NE”, the waves…

Smith Sigrah, you are a synonym for welcome, support, help, hospitality, advise, friendliness, kindness, troubleshooter, water supplier, mailing address provider, walking encyclopedia about Kosrae and Micronesia, and well-known person among sailors. Smith, please forgive me if I missed another description of you. Quite a while before we arrived in Kosrae we exchanged already emails. You…

Yesterday, I needed to write emails and search for marinas in Japan, which are affordable. Tobi, wanted to go spearfishing, so I brought him ashore at about 1400. He typically returns after 3 hours and we agreed he will contact me via Signal, when he is back. He can use an open wifi net ashore.…