Moona Kitesurfs @ Beran
Adventures at Ailinglaplap
Triple Kitesurf World Champion Moona Whyte was recently in the Marshall Islands as part of her ongoing series of adventures in remote kite spots. Her first words on landing on Ailinglaplap atoll were: “Wow, this is my favorite place ever” … and she hadn’t even seen the breaks yet. She was attending the Reo Stevens’ Read More
USA Today on Soccer in RMI
USA Today contacted me recently to compile a story and video footage about soccer in the Marshall Islands. “But we don’t do soccer in the Marshall Islands,” I said. “Ah, that’s the point,” said the newspaper’s Trysta Krick. At the time, the final games of the 2018 World Cup were being played out in Russia. Read More
Yacht Club Beer Can Race
The Mieco Beach Yacht Club Beer Can Race, held at the Marshall Islands Resort on Sunday, was a huge success with over 30 people competing in the shallow waters off the MIR beach. Race Director Larry Jones gave the ‘ready, set’ go’ command on the series of heats, with each seeing five racers attempt to Read More
Vava II Visits Majuro
The superyacht Vava II arrived in Majuro this week. She is owned by billionaires Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli, who are a fascinating couple partly because of his love of high-end competition sailing and her ongoing passion for writing songs and performing. Ernesto was born in Italy and is now a Swiss entrepreneur active in the Read More
Wasabi’s Whopper Wahoo
Sunday looked perfect, so Wasabi Captain Cary Evarts called his mate Willard Lathrop and said: “Let’s go fishing!” Will said yes and so the guys picked up some ice and headed out through Majuro Bridge. Just moments after setting the lines, zing-zip, they had a fish on. And it was a big one. Together they Read More
Basketball in RMI
The hottest game in town
Basketball is THE sport in the Marshall Islands. Sure, volleyball is popular, but you can’t get a more excited crowd than the one that’s at the SGT Solomon Sam Basketball Court watching a Ralik-Ratak Shoutout game. Turn a corner in Majuro and it’s likely you can see a hoop somewhere … and if you can Read More
Mattie Sasser: Weightlifting Star
Pacific Games weightlifting win: Three golds! December, 2017: On the first day of the Pacifi Mini Games weightlifting competition, Marshall Islands’ Mathlynn “Mattie” Sasser dominated the women’s 63kg category, setting five Oceania and five Pacific Games records on her way to three gold medals — the maximum possible gold medals for a weightlifter to win in Read More
Researching our Reefs
...And catching a huge tuna!
Sara Cannon, a Master’s student in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, was in the Marshall Islands for the summer with a team of researchers intent on measuring and photographing reefs. The hope is that when the data is analyzed it could show that reefs closer to the equator are generally Read More
Canoe trip ‘out of this world’
Jacque Spence, Executive Vice President of the Canvasback Medical Missions, and her team recently went sailing on a couple of traditional Marshallese canoes. Her verdict? “Sailing on a Marshallese canoe is out of this world! Marshallese were master canoe builders, indigenous navigators and amazing sailors. It is so great that they are making efforts to Read More
World’s largest shark sanctuary
In 2011, the Marshall Islands became home to the world’s largest shark sanctuary. The RMI waters cover 768,547 square miles — nearly four times the landmass of California — in which commercial fishing of all sharks is prohibited. And not only is it the biggest, but a year after implentation later, its shark protections are Read More
