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We left Lanai on March 29, 1990 and made a rough overnight sail to the Ala Wai in Waikiki. Lots of wind and confused seas on the beam as we cut across the channel. At least it's easy to see the lights of our destination and soon to be home for the next 3 months.
We stayed at the Hawaii Yacht Club for a couple of weeks and enjoyed their superb hospitality. What fun watching the races and bbq-ing with friends.
Here are Ana and Steve with our friend Patty at the HYC. On the table is the camera that took most of these lousy photos. The camera never seemed to focus very well, hence a lot of blurry photos that we scanned anyway because they're all we have.
After our pleasant stay at the HYC, we move to our end tie slip in the Ala Wai. We took a picture from the elevator at the top of the Ilikai Hotel and circled the slip that we were tied up at.
First order of business was getting the engine out of No Worries. The entire floorboard in the cockpit comes off and exposes the engine room. We used the boom as a crane and lifted the Volvo MD-17B engine out and over the dock. The shop that was going to re-build the engine brought a rickety flat cart. We weren't sure if we would get the engine up to the truck without dumping it in the water or not. The 1 month rebuild ended up taking almost 3 times that long.
In the mean time we learned to use the excellent bus system on Oahu. As I recall, a monthly pass was about $30. We could then ride buses anywhere on the island as many times as we wanted. Here are some of the places we took the buses to.
Turtle Bay Hilton
Punchbowl National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Arizona Memorial
Bowfin Museum
This was particularly interesting since Steve's father, Harold Hall, served in the Silent Service during WWII. He served aboard subs most the war beginning with USS S39, one of the WWI era subs that were still being used when the war began (the S39 was later lost in action.) Overall he did numerous war patrols on 6 different subs. Not my idea of a fun time cruising the South Pacific. Below are photos of the USS Searaven.
Iolani Park and the Royal Hawaiian Band
Hanuma Bay
Kaneohe Yacht Club
Aloha Tower
And there were all the places we could go on foot.
Fort DeRussy
Waikiki Beach
Hotels, parks and shops
We were invited over to the home of Sharon, Samantha and Gunter in Kaneohe for dinner one night along with the Baker family off s/v Fortune and they came to No Worries to visit another day.
Grant and Patty became good friends. Too bad they ended up calling off their cruising trip earlier than planned.
Shadowfax, now a derelict. The first boat that Steve sailed to Hawaii in 1970 and a photo of her then and 2 more on the day she was launched in 1970.
Marc get a job on the cruise ship and heads off with his friend Steve. So much for the easy life. (At least for a week when he quit and came back to the boat.)
You can always tell when we're in port, either Tom, Marc or Steve are doing dishes.
Finally the engine is finished. We put it back in the boat and head out for our last stop before heading home, Kauai.