{"id":1901,"date":"2025-06-09T02:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2025-06-09T02:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:18:07","slug":"check-in-june-9-2025-116-utc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/09\/check-in-june-9-2025-116-utc\/","title":{"rendered":"Check-in June 9, 2025; 1:16 UTC"},"content":{"rendered":"
Current Position: 18 39.529\u2019S 173 59.003\u2019W; Local Timezone: UTC+23; SOG: 0 kt COG: N\/A; TWS: 11 kt; TWD: 160; Distance to Waypoint (Vava\u2019u): At Anchor; Total Miles Sailed: 5750 nm;
\nComments: I was really reluctant to move the boat to the customs dock. I have a good mooring and it is always a challenge to grab one by yourself without dinging one of the mega yachts you\u2019re surrounded with. Hopefully it will still be here when I return. Ideally, I am suppose to visit the dock at high tide because it is a commercial dock, not really built for small boats, and the tide here can be six feet. Unfortunately, high tide is at 5:00 AM and 5:00 PM, outside the working hours of the officials. Also unfortunate is several other boats came in over the weekend, a cargo ship came in overnight and is occupying most of the dock, and customs was closed yesterday so all the boats that came in over the weekend are queued up for check-in. I see one has been circling by the dock for an hour. To make matters worse, the wind is picking up, making it impossible to stay still without being moored. It looked like there was room at the end of the dock, but then I remembered that there is a wreck there. The ship left about 11:00, making room for myself and one other boat (Danza, the boat that passed me in the last night of the passage) at the commercial dock, which is about three times taller than the fisherman\u2019s dock and is covered in barnacles. I dropped a second float and left my bridle to \u201cmark my mooring\u201d. Danza, a 60\u2019 ketch, went first and I rafted with her, making my job easier as her whole crew helped me tie up. I was visited first by customs, who gave me a stack of papers to fill out. Quarantine visited next, asked about my provisions and if I had any animals aboard. Health visit next and the official certified me healthy. I was then sent to an ATM to withdraw Tongan currency, 22 TON for Quarantine and 109 TON for Health (about $60 total USD). Customs then returned, examined my paperwork and asked a few questions. I was surprised that he took the Zarpe from Tahiti. I took a photo before he did. None of the officials went below deck, and all three were friendly and very professional. By 14:30, I was back on the mooring ball. The yellow Q flag came down. Aegir-Ran will be at home on the mooring ball for a week while I make repairs and provision. I will then explore some other anchorages before I return to check out. I am not going to check out in a Monday though. I am going to my to celebrate by putting the dinghy in the water and go into town for a meal.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Current Position: 18 39.529\u2019S 173 59.003\u2019W; Local Timezone: UTC+23; SOG: 0 kt COG: N\/A; TWS: 11 kt; TWD: 160; Distance to Waypoint (Vava\u2019u): At Anchor; Total Miles Sailed: 5750 nm; Comments: I was really reluctant to move the boat to the customs dock. I have a good mooring and it is always a challenge to … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Check-in June 9, 2025; 1:16 UTC”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-captainslog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}