Bumping it back up for a tiny snippet out of todays' entry:
The conditions died down around 5am to 25kts and the swell was about 10ft. I got to the entrance of the marina in Port Moresby around 1:00pm. The Search and Rescue boat had come out to meet me but because the wind was good and the passage wider than I thought, I sailed through the reef passages and into the yacht club mooring area.
Yeah, that's right - when the wind drops to 25 kts and the waves are only 10', it's plenty calm to sail through the reef into port.
And he doesn't make a big deal of it; just another day in the life of your average teenager...