A broad tropical disturbance, JTWWC Invest 97W, is loosely centered 400 miles west-southwest of Chuuk Lagoon, or 150 miles south-southwest of Satawal, according to the National Weather Service Guam.

In 1975, under the guidance of Master Navigator Mau Piailug of Yap’s Satawal Atoll, the Hōkūle’a or “Star of Gladness” was launched by the Polynesia Voyage Society. Its voyage from Hawai ...

No one in Hawai‘i truly knew how to sail it. The search for a navigator led them 4,000 kilometers west, to the tiny Micronesian island of Satawal. The island is just over a mile long.

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