We watched in awe last year as this traditional vaka drove to windward across Neiafu Harbor, Tonga, in a light breeze.
As long-distance sailors like to point out to nervous landlubbers, it’s not the ocean that’s so dangerous, it’s the hard stuff around the edges.
With much of the fleet at, or past the halfway mark, the 46th TransPac is turning out to be a pretty compelling yacht race.
