Cruising Guide to the Kingdom of Tonga in the Vavau Island Group
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THE MOORINGS, LTD A CRUISING GUIDE TO THE VAVA'U ISLAND GROUP IN THE KINGDOM OF TONGA ...
Weather Daily Weather Forecasts Tides and Currents Radio Procedures Service Calls Anchoring • Fish and POAsible Hazards Emergenc ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS - CONTINUED Hazard Fonua 'one'one - #42 (See Chart 118) • ~~CHORAGES Taunga - CHARTS 4, 5 AND Makave ...
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WEATHER The weather in Vava'u is controlled by trade winds blowing from the southeast to east at an average of 12 knots. Tempera ...
TTDES AND CURRENTS In Vava'u there are two low tides in a 24 hour period. The mean tide rise and fall is 3.3 feet. When going as ...
3 Channel 16 is not monitored onshore nor are there any servi.ces using this channel. However, yachts cruising in the area may m ...
ANCHORINC Most anchoring will be done at depths of 15 to 45 feet. Virtually all the anchorages have visibility beyond such depth ...
5 FISH AND POSSIBLE HAZARDS Many fish can be caught and most make excellent eatl.ng. We are fortunate not to have any fish poiso ...
6 EMERGENCIES In an emergency you have several a1 ternatives: (1) contact us, (2) go to the Neiafu wharf - the police station is ...
7 charterers should wear shorts and a blouse. Away from villages. a bikini. if you wear one. is fine for Rwimming. On Sunday, if ...
f. VAVA'U Vava'u, with its encircling waterway, has one of the most beautiful harbors in the Pacific, or for that matter, in the ...
9 people, either overseas for business, study or pleasure, always have a naggin~ nostalgia for their own islands. It was perhaps ...
10 usual more northerly route of the galleons, but had come south hoping to be, as eventually he was, swept up the coast of Sout ...
11 questioned the morality of taking over places which already had perfectly good governments of their own. As far as the Pacifi ...
J 2 Taufa Allau Tupou IV, acting on the advice of historians who thought they had identified the site, attempted to find the bot ...
l of many old German families. The whaling ships which filled the Western Pacific with adventure were largely American. but thei ...
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