Sailingbird's Guide to Tonga
A complete guide to sailing, diving, and exploring Vava'u, the sailing center of Tonga. Sailingbird's guide includes over 150 full-color photographs, hand-drawn maps, and illustrations.
A complete guide to sailing, diving, and exploring Vava'u, the sailing center of Tonga. Sailingbird's guide includes over 150 full-color photographs, hand-drawn maps, and illustrations.
This video is about our time spent during our two month visit in the Kingdom of Tonga. We had a blast and really enjoyed the specatcular diving, shell collecting, local events and, of course, the people of Tonga. A special thanks to the All Points Rally and Vava'u Blue Water Festival organizers and all the wonderful sailors we met while there.
This guide, although 13 years old this year, is still is the most relevant and detailed guidebook around. For the 2 months we spent in Tonga, we used this book every day to help us figure out where to go, what to do once there and really appreciated his photographs and hand-drawn charts. We saw this book on every boat we visited so others feel the same way. It's a classic, be sure to...
SY Feelin' Good has another video out about our passage from Tonga to New Zealand. We joined in the All Points Rally to sail from Nuku'Alofa in Tonga to Opua, New Zealand where we will spend our summer months cruising around and enjoying all New Zealand has to offer us.
After almost two months in Tonga exploring the archipelagos of Vava'u, Ha'apai, Nomuku and finally Tongatapu we are ready to begin our passage to Port Opura, New Zealand. It'll be about 1100 nm depending on if we stop at Minerva Reef or not. The weather will be the guide here as this passage has a reputation among sailors as being a tough one weather-wise. In anticipation of this we...
It was at around four this morning that the Tsunami warnings went off here in Tonga. Apparently this region of the Pacific received a meter high wave courtesy of the Chilean earth quake. For us here aboard Feelin' Good it was thankfully a non-event. Art has informed me that I slept through the whole thing, so I have no recollection of the tsunami's arrival. I will have no exciting...
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