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This is troubling news. Ulithi seems to be becoming an inhospitable place. I say this after hearing many details from a hellish 6-month stay there by some Australian yachtie friends, Andrew & Jenny and their two lovely young daughters. They washed ashore on the Ulithi atoll, and tried to refit their sailboat there. While some locals, including ( Read more... )

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Pius Mau Piailug, master navigator, died on July 12th, aged 78
Jul 22nd 2010 | From the print edition

IN THE spring of 1976 Mau Piailug offered to sail a boat from Hawaii to Tahiti. The expedition, covering 2,500 miles, was organised by the Polynesian Voyaging Society to see if ancient seafarers could have gone that way, through open ocean. ( Read more... )