Ship Logs

April 26 2019 Teraina island Copra is packed in 100-150 lb jute bags and carried on the backs of stevedores to boats held off the beach by crew up to their waists in water. Once loaded, the boats are driven out to the ship through a narrow pass. Trips must be timed...

Arrival back to Christmas Island. We Departed Puka Puka April 12th 17:30. 4 passengers, 14 crew. Light NE wind on the nose. Two days of steaming earned us the right to set full sail on the morning of april 15. Contrary winds and the west setting south equatorial...

It is 24 miles from Rakahanga to Tauhunu village Manihiki. Course SXE. wind 20kt, NXE. We laid at anchorat Raka with the surf all around us until 0400. We weighed and got under sail immediately. We set everything except the top-sail and made an effortless 7 kts all...

March 20 2019, a day that will go down in infamy. We awoke to discover that our new crew boat with it's just out of the box motor had disappeared from the stern. We had another boat rented from the Fanning island council. We sent three crew members in this boat to...

Feb 26 16:45 After loading a respectable 300m2 ? General cargo, neatly stowed in the hold and well strapped on the hatch we made a little show of leaving Kewalo harbor by setting sail in the channel. At the exit, we picked up the NE trades almost immediately. Main,...

Don't Forget the Dalai Lama's Rice I became captain of the Kwai two weeks ago.  Command of the worlds largest sail auxiliary cargo ship, one of the most interesting maritime jobs in the world. Whenever I am in charge of a boat,  I wake once or many times during the...

Aloha from KWAI, We are currently looking for a Master Captain to sail the South Pacific! Qualifications are listed on our Crew Page on this website. Please get in touch if you are qualified and interested. We look forward to having a conversation.