A message left on West Fayu by a crew member from a sailing canoe named Solo gives the names of the voyagers and their island of origin — Polowat (Puluwat):
3/14/99
ARRIVAL DAY
ON SOLO1. MANEPY
2. SANDY
3. DANNY
4. JOKIM
5. ROBINPOLOWAT
Traditionally-made sailing canoes from Polowat and Satawal voyage regularly to West Fayu in the summer season to fish and gather food to take back to their home islands. Using the sharp point of a knife, they often inscribe messages on the palm fronds located at the main landing site. There was also a message left by an unknown crew member of a sailing canoe named Raekini about the Makali'i — a Hawaiian double-hulled sailing canoe crewed by Hawaiian students — which was completing its epic voyage from Hawaii to Micronesia to deliver Piailug to his home island of Satawal:MAKALI'I
DEPARTED
AT 3:00 PM
ON MONDAY OF
APRIL 12, 1999
WITH THE ARRIVAL OF
RAEKINI
ON THE SAME
DAY AT 4:00 PMAlso, of interest was a message left on May 13, 1999 by a member of the Simion Hokule'a crew ... not to be confused with the famous double-hulled canoe that was built in Hawaii but the traditional single-outrigger sailing canoe built by Mau Piailug on Satawal and named after the which he navigated from Hawaii to Tahiti in 1976. The message included twenty names of persons who were on the voyage, including women. This is the largest group of voyagers reported for a single-outrigger canoe in these islands in recent times.