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"Land ho! Land ho!" After 28 days of life at sea, everyone aboard Nausikaa was thrilled to see land, and then the lights on the shoreline of Oahu, and finally the silhouette of Diamond Head Mountain with the lights of Waikiki and Honolulu below.

Sunrise was four hours off. The entrance to the harbor was a narrow channel through a shallow reef. If Boris and Shirley had known how many ships had completed a long ocean voyage only to run aground on that reef just short of the harbor, they might have waited for daybreak.

The channel markers and direction lights seemed almost indistinguishable amid the glare of city lights. The waves were lifting the ship up and thrusting it down again towards the shallow bottom.

But once into the channel, there was no turning back.