Sailing in the Kingdom of Tonga, Vava’u Group, Ep 54, Off the Starboard Hull

[@rickpatrinellis6558]

.... bandwidth off of Mahana to stream your Tonga video. Enjoyed vey much! Miss you both.

[@offthestarboardhull8913]

Love you both

[@jenniferwilfe6637]

Hi Scott! So nice to meet you today on the Sacred Island in Fiji! Always nice to meet a fellow Canadian, let alone someone from Toronto. Let us know when you're coming back our way through Midland. John & Jennifer from Barrie

[@offthestarboardhull8913]

Jennifer Wilfe , hi guys. You never know when you will meet fellow Canuck. I’m looking forward to having you on MUSKOKA . A Georgian Bay sunset would be heaven. See you soon. [e-mail] Cheers

[@Every_Day_Adventure]

As you walked through the jungle to get to the other side of the island, I wondered if you and Lauri ever stop to think "we are on an Island in the South Pacific....So Amazing.

[@offthestarboardhull8913]

h6ksa1 we often pinch ourselves and think “wow, where are we?”. Kenutu was a magical place with many different sides. We will be back there in a few months. Cheers

[@Every_Day_Adventure]

@@offthestarboardhull8913 I look forward to each and every episode of your travels. I went up to Nanaimo on the tsawwassen ferry back in March to look at a boat. I thought about you two and the journey your on and how it all started from those waters. Enjoy the ride Scott, give Laurie my best...David

[@offthestarboardhull8913]

h6ksa1 hi! Laurie here. I just am uploading the second part of the Tonga videos now. Feast or famine. Nanaimo, where we started. We will be leaving NZ in about 3 weeks so need to get our footage uploaded while we are in the land of good wifi.

[@leisureinnovations8544]

Hi Laurie and Scott, Thanks for keeping us updated on your travels. Keep the videos coming. The underwater videos are great. Be safe and have fun. Gary, Linda, and Gregg, Clayton, CA

[@offthestarboardhull8913]

Leisure Innovations, thanks for your kind words. We are in New Zealand, the boat is getting fitted up with a few things and will return to the tropics in about a month. Cheers from MUSKOKA

[@offthestarboardhull8913]

Leisure Innovations hi! Nice to hear from you again. I am uploading the second part of the Tonga videos as we speak! Cheers

[@Stoic-of-Rome]

Happy clappy music OMG!!

[@jwrappuhn71]

Good vid ya'll.

[@offthestarboardhull8913]

jwrappuhn71 thanks!

[@tolgahasturk3247]

Thank you.

[@offthestarboardhull8913]

Tolga Hasturk glad you enjoyed the video

[@SlowBoatSailing]

Are y’all still in Vava’u?

[@offthestarboardhull8913]

Slow Boat Sailing hi! We are spent the cyclone season Dec-March in NZ but will be heading back to Tonga, then Fiji at the end of this month, weather permitting

[@rickpatrinellis6558]

Hello to two of our favorite people! Had enough bandwidth off Mahana

[@theislandpackrat]

Would hate to fall and get sucked into one of those blow holes!

[@offthestarboardhull8913]

Yes, it was pretty scary but exciting at the same time. Cheers

[@kevin3434343434]

I'm going to get bitched at by others, but man, you are really rolling the dice with those blowholes. Especially with little kids. There is no coming back if you get swept into one, it's an awful way to die.

[@offthestarboardhull8913]

Hey Kevin, boat kids on boats are much different than kids raised on the couch. As there are many kids out sailing I have a unique perspective, having raised children onshore with small trips on the boat, I can see the difference. Boat kids have a very good sense of risk management, it’s nothing to see the 10 year old at the helm and doing an admirable job. Dingy handling is best done by kids. As for the blow holes there were scrapes but no loss of life. Makes for a well rounded adult. They eat dirt as well. Cheers Scott