Ship Logs

OCEAN VOYAGES INSTITUTE with SV KWAI SETS RECORD WITH LARGEST OPEN OCEAN CLEAN-UP IN HISTORY 103 Tons of Plastic Removed From the Great Pacific Garbage Patch HONOLULU, HI — June 23, 2020 Ocean Voyages Institute’s marine plastic recovery vessel, S/V KWAI, docked at the...

April 2rd, 2020 Our beloved sailing vessel the Kwai is on its second day underway from Kirimati in the Line Islands to Hawai'i. All equipment and sailing accoutrements have been sea stowed and preparations for the voyage have thus far proven to be shipshape. In this...

Sorry all Kwaisters, we have been poorly feeding our blogs lately. In this Corona virus free land, lots of things has been happening. Let me start with regular Kwai life. Our last tour of the Outer Islands is now completed. We had crew that sailed on Kwai for the...

  V53 Blog. March 17 2020 The world is a very strange place right now. And stranger still, our— the Kwai crew’s— assumptions of this, experience of it, is all through gossip traded among the crew of the emails we’ve gotten from family and others, and emailed...

Voyage 53 4 March 2020 blog from Chantale The sun hasn’t left the sky since the ceremonial burning. The sea scale has an average of “3” since our departure on Feb. 27th. While on V52 the wind, the cold, the rain, the “things that can go wrong go wrong, stuck to the...

Voyage 53, 28 Feb 2020 from Shanan Aaaaaand we’re off! It feels like hardly a week ago that we arrived in Honolulu, battered, salty and limping slightly with our three torn sails after our dogged fight to get north from Fanning Island. The wind kept both increasing...

From Shanan Jack Johnson Blues, Matched only by the frosted swells Colored north Pacific Blue (15 degrees north Pacific blue, to be exact) (15 degrees, 07 minutes north Pacific blue, to be more exact) Emanate from the wheelhouse. It is 1300 on the 16th of February,...

7 February, 2020   After several days of rain and cold, we  arrived safely to Kiritimati (Christmas Island). So much rain on our last day at sea from Honolulu that the radar wasn’t detecting the island two miles away! We anchored and had the Kiribati boarding party...

29 January, 2020 As was mentioned in the previous blog, the rolling has not stopped yet. Twenty knots of winds, one foot of water on the main deck and the weather is getting colder and colder. After only four days at sea, we have started to eat our reserves of...

Anika Another tracker for Kwai On our departure day, we were told that there is a tracker just west of the Big Island floating along. Everybody is excited, the experienced ones in ghost net hunting and the first timers. We all hope to find a huge net although...