{"id":618,"date":"2026-09-27T22:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T12:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/?page_id=618"},"modified":"2026-10-03T10:11:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:11:46","slug":"fiji-2004","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/?page_id=618","title":{"rendered":"Fiji 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nicola and I arrived at Savusavu after an easy downwind passage from Tonga. The electronic C-Map charts failed for about a day on the approach, so I returned to plotting on paper until the display recovered near landfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Denny and Dean joined Nicola and I aboard in Fiji after Tracey had left the boat in Tonga. We cruised among the islands before sailing on towards Vanuatu. The surviving old site also names Suva, Lomalongi, Matangi and the Yasawa group among the places visited.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/?page_id=1760\">Read more \u2014 Fiji cruising<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/?page_id=1761\">Read more \u2014 Fiji holiday<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"639\" src=\"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/matangi_bay.jpg\" alt=\"Sailing yachts anchored in the turquoise water of Matangi Bay, Fiji\" class=\"wp-image-700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/matangi_bay.jpg 800w, https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/matangi_bay-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/matangi_bay-768x613.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Matangi Bay during the 2004 Fiji cruise.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<nav aria-label=\"Voyage navigation\" class=\"wp-block-group malua-voyage-nav is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"margin-top:40px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/?page_id=11\">\u2190 Back to Voyages<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/?page_id=619\">Next: Vanuatu 2004 \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicola and I arrived at Savusavu after an easy downwind passage from Tonga. The electronic C-Map charts failed for about a day on the approach, so I returned to plotting on paper until the display recovered near landfall. Denny and Dean joined Nicola and I aboard in Fiji after Tracey had left the boat in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":274,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_wpcom_ai_launchpad_about_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_gallery_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_contact_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_events_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_video_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_portfolio_piece":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-618","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PhqRzp-9Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/618\/revisions\/1854"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}