We attempted making our site multilingual and somehow disabled our ability to post to our blog via email. We found free internet at Fakarava Yacht Services Fakarava Tuamotus. We hope to back date our last 17 posts because we wouldn’t want anyone to miss out on our stop in Apataki […]
French Polynesia In Reverse
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This morning we left Toau early because the winds started to increase speed and we were not sure how strong the tide was going to ebb or flood the channel. As we approached the channel to leave Toau we were a little nervous because the waves looked like they were […]
We woke at 5:00 AM pulled up our anchor and headed out the Apataki south pass. Morning wind and our weather reports predicted the wind from the north, so we worked for an hour preparing to raise our downwind sail or spinnaker. The wind direction was not accurate for our […]
We waited 48 hours to have a better understanding of the weather and it looks like the worst of the storm will stay southwest of us by 150 miles. And the forecast looks like we should not have more than 30 knots of wind and it will be 10 days […]
We were lazily playing around north east Apataki. Gathering coconuts for an evening refreshment, spear fishing, and barbecues on the beach. We even attempted hunting lobsters to no avail. We knew it was time to start moving on, but we weren’t ready to leave so we pulled our Sailmail weather […]
We were surprised this morning with a knock at our boat by Brice a friendly local we met yesterday. He stopped by to give us black pearls and coconuts. As we talked story we learned about a beautiful motu north east that we were permitted to gather coconuts, coconut crabs, […]
As we explore Motu Rua Vahine, southern Apataki, and resting from busy Pape’ete we try to stay in the shade because it is hot. We wouldn’t say the humidity is higher than the southern United States, but the heat has brought the sea water temperature high enough that our afternoon […]
We were sailing along and last night around midnight the wind disappeared. We had maybe a 5 knot breeze so we pulled over to Apataki. We found a sweet motu on the south end, called Vahine, and anchored to rest. We are both super tired but jumped in the crystal […]
What makes a good day at sea? It was a sunny day, no rain, about 78 degrees, the wind let up to an average of 15 knots such that we could put up full sail and make a relatively good and comfortable speed given how close to the direction of […]
This morning, the first day of 2017, we said farewell to Tahiti, and as the “subject” of this writing sugests, “Na Na” means “good bye” in Polynesian. However, our departure this morning was not as early as we planned the night before, that being New Years Eve. Thus, at 1:15 […]
We are ringing in the New Year in Pape’ete Tahiti, and New Years Day with a new sail. The last couple of days we have been busy getting food, fuel, taking down Christmas lights, raising the dingy, cleaning the boat bottom, doing laundry and it goes on and on. Our […]
We walked off the boat this morning to drums beating and Polynesian dancers arriving on small boats, along with many other small boats and outriggers. Tahiti welcomed Paul Meilhat SMA Vendee solo racer with open arms after his withdraw from third place. He left the Vendee race because of a […]