Camping Trip to Bigeg

Filed at 12:25 pm under Sailing and Travel by glennstu

Several weekends ago while taking my friend’s 36-foot Catamaran Georgina on a shake out cruise we came up with the idea of sailing up to Bigeg to go camping. We chose Bigeg because my friend Eric’s girlfriend Cathner owns the southern half of the island. Bigeg is a fairly large island north of Ebeye and is part of the same atoll as Roi-Namor and Kwajalein. Eric keeps Georgina in Kwajalein for now though he has plans to sail her up to Roi eventually…. Read more »

Voyage of Moonshine

Filed at 1:31 pm under Sailing by glennstu

Voyage of Moonshine

The title of this article may give the reader the misimpression that I am writing about a booze cruise. I will assure you that it was hardly the case. Last Saturday at lunch one my colleagues Bruce mentioned that he was thinking of sailing his boat from Kwaj up to Roi-Namur but that he did not have a crew as his wife and kids were stateside. I quickly volunteered to help. Bruce gave it some thought and later in the afternoon phoned me to ask me to go. Things fell into place quickly. I managed to book the last seat on the last flight down to Kwaj (only one of the planes was flying that day) and arranged for a room at the Kwaj Lodge. Read more »