Author Archives: Peter Rossin
Puget Sound Pilot Pi”rat”es
Prior to our departure form Hawaii, we had heard a variety of horror stories about the Pacific Coast Pilots. Some folks advised us to go into “stealth” mode by turning off our AIS. Reviewing the pilotage regs, however,it appeared to … Continue reading
Hawaii to Vancouver Island
My schedule called for departure form Pittsburgh to Hawaii on May 13 – I should have known better. Useless Scareways put me through one of their creeping delays. I arrived at the airport around 0500 for my 0700 flight. They … Continue reading
Palmyra Atoll
Palmyra Atoll was our last stop enroute to Hawaii from the Marquesas. The Atoll lies about 6 degrees north of the equator and is out of the cyclone belt so it is a logical place to wait for a weather … Continue reading
Scanning Sonar Issue
Our procedure while the boat has been sitting in Hawaii is to exercise all the systems to keep things operational and identify and fix any problems before its time to depart for Alaska. In the process, we started to get … Continue reading
Christmas Island – Kiribati
Christmas Island lies at 1.5 degrees North of the equator around 157 degrees West. The transit from Nuka Hiva to Christmas was around 1230 nautical miles – a little over 5 days for Iron Lady. The following is a map … Continue reading
Nuka Hiva Departure
With Deb, Lisa and Dan off to Tahiti and onward to the US and Mark Fritzer aboard, our first task was to refuel for the transit north to Hawaii. Once again using the good services of our Secret Agent, Pascal … Continue reading
Final Fatu Hiva
One of my friends has been complaining that we seem to be permanently stuck in Fatu Hiva (at least as far as our blog), and that it is time to move on already. Agreed – but one final post on … Continue reading
Grey Wolf
Steve Dashew just put up an interesting post on Grey Wolf – FPB 6 if I recall. She is bound from NZ to her new home port in England and plans to depart NZ for French Polynesia shortly. That is … Continue reading