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Viandante adds their buoy to the Rongerik Yacht Club display. Photo: Tree branch, timer.Grant Gardner kite boarding in Rongerik. Photo: Carley Shelton on S/V ViandanteCarley Shelton on one of Rongerik’s gloious beaches. Photo: Grant Gardner of SV Viandante. Rongerik Atoll was a popular destination in 2018, with quite a number of yachts visiting the uninhabited spot in the northern part of the Marshall Islands. Included in the group was the yacht Viandante, with Grant Gardner and Carley Shelton on board. They happily added a Viandante buoy as their application for membership in this exclusive club. Rongerik’s claim to fame...

October, 2018: The Mieco Beach Yacht Club began working on a mooring project for Enemanet and Eneko Islands in Majuro in 2006. Twelve years later the moorings are still well-maintained and used by yacht club members, thereby saving the precious reefs from anchor damage. Back in the day, we created a powerpoint and showed it a text events and schools (now turned into the above mp4 video) and wrote an article on the project for the Seven Seas Cruising Assocaiton Bulletin, which is pasted below. In 2013, my husband Cary and I won the Seven Seas Bateman Cruisng Station...

Majuro Cruisers to the Rescue Article: KAREN EARNSHAW Photo: KELLY LORENNIJ The sailing boat Ahaluna from Vancouver, Canada, broke from its mooring in the early hours Friday morning as strong winds blew in from the west. Captain Peter Hartmann put out a distress call on the VHF radio saying that his boat was stuck on the reef, prompting a number of yachts to come to the rescue in their small inflatable boats. Ahaluna went adrift just after high tide, so with the waves pushing the boat further towards the shore and then the tide dropping, the cruisers were unable...