Ken, Eric and Kirby arrived in Apataki to relaunch Painkiller in late February. Sitting on the hard in the tropics for 16 months took a toll on Painkiller and they had a massive clean up and some repairs to sort out before setting sail for Nuku Hiva. There are many stories from the clean up that involve copious amounts of bugs, but we can skip the details.

On the sail to Nuku Hiva they caught a 100+lb 55” Yellow Fin Tuna pictured here with Eric. They also got the freezer up and running and now it.’s stocked with tuna which should last for awhile.

While Ken & crew were sailing from Apataki to Nuku Hiva, Jules was sailing on Kismet from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico to meet Ken and Painkiller in Nuku Hiva.