Meimei Yacht Services Fiji

01/07/2024

Wow🤩

Today is , and we are highlighting an innovative tool - the stick charts of the Marshall Islands.

These are objects of baffling wonder, as were the skills of their makers who navigated their 181-square-kilometre archipelago in the North Pacific Ocean. The charts, which recorded oceanic topography, were used as mnemonic devices and for teaching purposes. They have a long history: Micronesian colonists reached the Marshall Islands by 2000 BCE. They named the 29 atolls, five islands, and rings of coral islets Aelon Kein Ad – ‘our atolls’ – and hopped between them on canoes after first consulting the stylised charts.

Marshallese mariners were singular in the Pacific in focusing on the sea, as opposed to the sky. They piloted by swells – the charts are representations of the way regular and deep ocean swells are reflected, refracted and diffracted by islands in their path.

- Excerpt from Endless Sea by Frances Walsh
NZMM 1999.145.1

28/11/2023

17/08/2023

Sounds like Fun!

17/08/2023

📷: Paul Caiger · Behold the bedazzling beauty of this deep-sea cephalopod, the strawberry squid! 🦑 🍓 The strawberry squid, scientifically known as Histioteuthis heteropsis, comes by its name with a bright red body dotted by tiny luminescent photophores. Photophores are light-emitting organs commonly found on animals that live in the depths of our oceans. These tiny glowing spots cover the strawberry squid’s body and are particularly important in allowing them to lure in prey. The strawberry squid is also known as the reverse jewel squid due to photophores that resemble jewels covering its body. 💎

15/08/2023

Now here is some traditional rigging that really deserves the title. Lots to learn from this image. I can smell the rigging tar from here.

11/07/2023

28/06/2023

Sunday sailing with friends

28/06/2023

🍍 MARKET DAY on Saturday 8 July 2023 from 9am till 3pm at First Landing Resort 🌴

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02/06/2023

A study published in the journal Ecology presents the first evidence of two species of stingrays producing sounds for self-defence. Sharks, rays, and skates, which are part of the cartilaginous fishes, were to date thought to be mute, and lacking the ability to communicate with sounds.