Around six years ago Sara was in Auburn Alabama going to college and a friend of hers asked to help research destination weddings, she came across the Four Seasons Bora Bora. Gazing at the beautiful pictures of this dream get away Sara thought to herself, “I want to go there”. […]
Comfort Cruising
250 posts
We have anchored in Bora Bora far away from any of the resorts or dive boats. Sorry to those that were waiting for pictures, you may have to wait another week or so because we are again far from internet connection. During our arrival through the channel there were a […]
Many boat duties are divided into blue or boy jobs or girl or pink jobs. The division of jobs is not on purpose but basically boils down to task that need to be done. Sara was woke by Wade to assume her watch in the middle of the night but […]
Hi Everyone, A short noon report today, but we can report that we caught 3 fish although two got away. Maybe the bringing in of fish and numerous sail changes caused Wade’s finger to start hurting and swell again, that being the one poked by the big lobster. Ice seems […]
Hi All, Last night our winds switched around sunset and we had to take a gamble of sailing south, which would put us a little closer towards our destination but not making any easting we desperately need before the winds change back to being out of the east or sail […]
Hi All, We are now one day on our way towards Bora Bora. The winds and sailing have been great with us making a few degrees better course than expected and today was lovely. Around sunset however, the wind shifted about 50 degrees and we are now on a course […]
This afternoon at around 5 pm we left the lovely Island of Penrhyn and are now on our way to Bora Bora, we hope. Our destination is on a course of 142 degrees and a distance of about 585 miles. For the two hours we have now been under way […]
We are very happy that last night we ate Island Crabs and not Coconut Crabs because we learned Coconut Crabs have poison in the head, not that either of us ever intended to eat the head, but it’s good to know. This morning we had a few of the locals […]
Haha, Coconut crabs! We finally were able to move today. We paid out chain and drove forward on each stuck point but no movement. We finally dove on the anchor and the chain was stuck on reef nothing more than 50 feet from the anchor. The chain was stuck between […]
We finally had a descent weather window for the next four to five days. Our dive gear was spread across the cockpit, our anchor is again wrapped around a another bombie 80 feet below the surface, and we are still really enjoying Penrhyn, so we’ve decided to let the good […]
We finally stopped kidding ourselves that we were leaving in the next week to two weeks, so we spent the whole day pulling out our scuba diving equipment from the deepest parts of the boat and at 3:18 PM we began our descent below the waterline. We were first greeted […]
We have gone dinghy fishing on Flying Venus Reef outside of Takuua passage, as we are limiting the use of the big boat to save fuel for our passage to French Polynesia. By order of the yummiest first we have caught one Yellow Fin Tuna, two Barracudas, one Bluefin Trevally, […]