Wednesday, June 03 2009 @ 10:45 AM BST
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This morning we received this email from one of the crew members of Lapita Anuta. She has now sailed 280 Nm back to Lata in Santa Cruz via Tikopia and will soon be returning to Anuta. The double canoe has started her job as independent transport for the island!!
The other 'stuff' they are waiting for is a roll of Canvacon sailcloth, which we are arranging to transport to Anuta from Australia. Remember donations to this project are still very welcome, so we can keep supplying the boats with material for their upkeep.
Email from Joseph Maru (standing in blue shirt):
Hi, Hanneke Boon, it's been long time now since you left us with LAPITA ANUTA ,we been sail from Anuta on Thursday 22 for Tikopia, Friday 23 arrived, leave for Lata 24 in the evening, arrived Kala Bay 25, 10pm this is our first ever see how Lapita travel. We are really happy to have our own yacht. By the way Hanneke we are now at Lata ready to leave for Anuta . Yes we receive all the stuff, we take it with us back to Anuta. We come to Lata to collect school books, biros, pencils. etc.. There are eight of us on board Lapita Anuta, four crews and four passengers. but we still wait for other stuff you promised us.
Joseph Maru
The Lapita Anuta crew doing repair work on the mainsail, ashore in Anuta.
Since my return from the Lapita Voyage and my 'blog'last week, I have spent two weeks recouperating. But the following email from Hanneke Boon shows that even after the double canoes were delivered to their islands of Anuta and Tikopia, sea life in the far Solomons is still hard and dangerous...
James Wharram
Life aboard cargo ship 'Kesoko', four days on top of a cargo hatch.
Last week on the last blog of the Lapita Voyage official website, Klaus Hympendahl, describes the four chiefs of Tikopia in solemn assembly, smoking pipes and chewing betel nuts in the chief’s house before leading a procession to the beach with four clergy and singing, to bless the 'Lapita Tikopia' double canoe, followed by a Polynesian feast. But what Klaus did not say is that Hanneke was still sailing one of the two double canoes to its new home on the island of Anuta.
The boat was delivered by Hanneke, two Polynesians, Caulton (the Anutan) and Tulana (the expedition’s Polynesian non-instrumental navigation expert), plus Jamie Wharram and Ingo, a German TV cameraman.
This Lapita Voyage expedition has reached the little fisherman’s port of Korida on the Island of Superiori/Biak, which is an offshore island off the North coast of Indonesian Papua - New Guinea (135-136 degrees East). This island is 1250 Nm from our starting point in Bohol in the Philippines, from which we departed 6 weeks ago.
On 26th October 2008 the two boats for the 4000Nm long Lapita Voyage, ‘Lapita Tikopia’ and ‘Lapita Anuta’, slipped into the water without a hitch.
Blessed with a few words and a splash of coconut milk from expedition leaders Klaus Hympendahl and myself they were heaved down a beautiful white-sand beach and into the Pacific. It was the culmination of almost 3 years of dreaming, designing and planning.
The boats now rest in the shallow, turquoise waters a short paddle from the lively bars and restaurants of Alona Beach, Panglao Island, Philippines.
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Hi, Hanneke Boon, it's been long time now since you left us with LAPITA ANUTA ,we been sail from Anuta on Thursday 22 for Tikopia, Friday 23 arrived, leave for Lata 24 in the evening, arrived Kala Bay 25, 10pm this is our first ever see how Lapita travel. We are really happy to have our own yacht. By the way Hanneke we are now at Lata ready to leave for Anuta . Yes we receive all the stuff, we take it with us back to Anuta. We come to Lata to collect school books, biros, pencils. etc.. There are eight of us on board Lapita Anuta, four crews and four passengers. but we still wait for other stuff you promised us. 
