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Solo round-the-world sailing trip #11 - Heading to Fiji and Vanuatu

27 de novembro de 2025 · 25 min · 10K visualizações · Suva

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Pablo, sailing solo around the world aboard Sofía 6, departs Tonga after a 14-day stop and makes a four-day passage to Suva, Fiji, covering roughly 500 miles.0:05 The first two days run mostly under motor in light air; wind builds to 20 knots with squalls on day three.1:29 He enters Suva through the reef via radio contact with port control, anchors in the commercial bay, and spends a full day — 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. — clearing customs, immigration, health, and biosecurity across four or five separate offices.4:34 After provisioning and taking on diesel, he sails 117 miles west to Muscat Cove, entering through the Nagula Passage against a one-knot current, with reef-dense anchoring described as tricky.6:03 A planned departure for Vanuatu is delayed at Denarau by a low-pressure system forecasting 28 knots with 34-knot gusts at mid-passage; he waits until August 29 for a weather window, using Starlink to monitor forecasts.10:53 The 500-mile passage to Port Vila, Vanuatu, takes four days: 136 miles in the first 24 hours at 17–18 knots of wind, a calm third morning requiring motoring, then a rough third night with 26-knot gusts and 2-meter beam seas.16:48 Customs and immigration in Port Vila are conducted in a bar, the original offices destroyed in a 2021 earthquake.24:15 Port Vila is a technical stop en route to the Torres Strait.24:49

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