This was a absolutely beautiful boat.We were the ones that pulled them off the reef….What made it all the more interesting was what Jack said, these people are absolutely crazy. A couple days after we left, another boat pulled in that belonged to a San Diego couple called Malcom and Duff Graham. Now what went on at Palmyra was a bit different. And, um, that was it, we did our thing at Kingman Reef and, you know went on and ultimately back to Hawaii. Frankly I am worried about being on Palmyra with those people that we pulled in. But a day out from when we left Palmyra we got a call from Jack on the radio saying guys, I’m sorry to change plans on you, but my family and I have already departed Palmyra and we’re on the way back to Honolulu. Jack was going to stay there, all the time that we were at Kingman reef, as the backup.
Now, the reason I’m making the point of this is the, let me just continue on for a minute-our plan was to leave the next day to go on to Kingman Reef, which we did. We went out and took the dingies from our boat and Jack’s boat and were able to pull them off and finally tow them in and tie them up at you know a pier left from the old Navy operations there. On the 3rd day that we were there, the day before we were to leave for Kingman Reef, the other boat-we saw it try to sail through the cut and didn’t make it. They kind of waved us off, so we went on in-had no problem getting through the cut into the protected harbor and we tied up right next to Jack Wheeler’s boat and went about doing our HAM radio things for 2 or 3 days. Now, what made it easy for us, ehh, we had radio communication with Jack and his group already in, and Jack knew there were a couple landmarks on the island, like a tree and a post, and Jack said, okay, that’s what you do is you sail around until the tree lines up with the post and then you aim straight for them, and of course he was able to be talking us through all this to bring us through the little cut to get into the safe anchorage.īefore we went in we did go out to the-where the other boat was and you know indicated to them that we were gonna go in if they wanted to follow us that would be fine.
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We had no idea who these people were or why they were there but it was pretty obvious that they hadn’t figured out how to get in through that cut or exactly where it was. Now, when we sailed-it was a six day sail for us, from Hawaii to Palmyra and when we got there, very interesting that we, uhh, Jack and his family were already inside the lagoon, yet there was another boat off-had not been able to get through the cut, and it was just kind of anchored on the reef out there. " Pete and the Wheelers did there thing and they got to Palmyra, Jack knew right where to cut, where the reef was, how to get in and they were there waiting for him.
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