The New Canoes
From Workshop to Water - Building and Sailing Traditional Pacific Canoes
The Marshall Islands is getting some newly-designed canoes to help the outer islanders end their reliance on gasoline for their outboard motors … and Jo and Rob Birch has the story!On their YouTube channel Sailing Double Trouble Jo and Rob wrote On September 17, 2020: “When an awesome traditionally designed Pacific canoe anchored next to Read More
Ailuk’s Canoes
CANOE CAPSIZES! Rob and Jo Birch spent many months filming in the Marshalls as they sailed around the atolls on their yacht Double Trouble.In this video, the couple writes: “A traditional Pacific canoe capsizes next to us when we are on anchor at Ailuk Lagoon. The five visiting yachts all head over in their dinghy Read More
Tom Armbruster
Remembering RMI
Today’s Remembering RMI guest writer is former US Ambassador to the Marshall Islands TOM ARMBRUSTER who served in this position from August 2012 to May 2016. My favorite place in the Marshall Islands was anywhere underwater. The first time I saw a shark I knew I had to take my cue from Hiro, RayCrew’s incomparable Read More
Moi 4 Dinner
Filmed and edited by Fern Lehman Stege, the video Moi 4 Dinner comes from the iTuna Marshall Islands Club. The clip promotes eating healthy moi fish, which is farmed in Majuro by Aquaculture Technologies of the RMI. Watch the show and learn how to cook moi! The message attached to the video is: Eat sustainably Read More
RMI Telephone Directory
National Telecommunications Authority Directory
All the landline numbers you need to know in the Marshall Islands. We thank the National Telecommunications Authority for making their phone directory public. We also thank Jamison Logan for his gorgeous aerial photo of Majuro.
MIMRA Looks To The Future
Reimaanlok: Looking Towards The Future Must-watch movie In October 2019 the Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority (MIMRA) set out on a Pacific Islander-led expedition to two of the Republic of the Marshall Islands’ (RMI) most remote atolls, Bikar and Bokak. The goal of the expedition was to conduct the country’s first ecological assessment of these Read More
Riwut Racing
Riwut canoes are miniature canoes that zip along at high speeds. Riwut racing seems to have phases of popularity, but in recent years, if you go to the Marshall Islands Club (on the back road in Uliga) in the early evening, you will often see dozens of the miniature canoes being raced along the oceanside reef. The Read More
To Stay or To Leave?
That is the Question
By Geoff Goodman* The question I keep penduluming on: Do you stay on a currently-COVID-19-free island in a tiny developing country or return to the US? It’s April 2020 in Majuro and packs of kids are running through all the houses in the neighborhood, jumping in people’s arms, grabbing snacks and getting kid-things everywhere. They Read More
Love Like the Islands
Six9Too Productions/Baka Solomon has just published Love Like the Islands, which on their YouTube channel is described as: “An Island Reggae mix recorded and produced at Six9too Productions Studio in the Marshall Islands located in the heart of the vast Pacific Ocean. Six9too is made up of a growing group of talented producers, artists and Read More
Visit Mili Atoll
Dustin Langidrik recently visited Mili Atoll and happily he made a short movie of his trip. Thanks Dustin! Credits: The song is Sweet Cheeks by Raf Rundell For lovers of historic detail, pasted below is Wikipedia’s take on Mili: The British merchant vessel Rolla sighted several islands in the Ratak and Ralik Chains. On October Read More
