Shipwrecked in remote places! A sailors worst nightmare.

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Getting wrecked is every mariners worst nightmare, and to have it happen where you can't call for help must be even more scary!

The weather was very changeable as you can see in our video. One minute its beautiful and calm, the next the anchorage is turned into a wavy, windy mess. We constantly need to keep up with where the winds and rain will be coming from in order to position ourselves in a safe spot.
Safety comes from shelter, so that you are not blown onto the land and you don't have a large body of water in front of where the wind is coming from which allows the waves to pick up.

In the atolls there are very few places to hide. The predominant wind comes from the west, meaning most of the East side of the atoll is unchartered and uninhabited. However every now and then the weather will surprise you, and catch you unprepared. When a storm come up we monitor our anchor very carefully to make sure there is no movement. With the boat rocking violently up and down on the chain the anchor can easily dislodge, and if you have coral or land behind you when this happens then disaster can strike.

Thankfully for this sailor his boat is made of steel, so it will be salvageable. Had this been a fibreglass boat there would have been very little left of it.

This is a clear example why countries should insist on wreck removal insurance. Imagine the cost of removing a fibreglass boat with a huge hole in the bottom would be. For this steel boat - so long as the rudder and engine still functions its a case of dragging it back to deeper water so that it can make its way to the yard for repairs.

Its also very sad to see the damage a wreck can make to the coral. You can imagine in a storm a big steel boat like this hitting one of the beautiful coral bommies...

Besides the wreck and the weather this episode has some great underwater footage, as well as us getting a large food delivery after the long Christmas break.

The Polynesian's in Tahiti are incredibly resourceful and offer a shop and send service to the remote islands. You send them a shopping list. They go to the store in Tahiti for you and buy all the goods on your list, pack it all up and put it on the ship. When you receive your order you pay for the goods and their fee, which is not very much if you consider the trust they are putting in you and the work involved. Lets hope no one ever takes advantage of them and this trust!

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