I think it will kill many boats. You can apparently only sell a project boat to a licensed pro, and they will never buy them. There goes the rest of...
Thunderstorms had been threatening us for days, no lightning really close but we could see it at night in the surrounding clouds. We headed into the...
Thirty minutes later, we had the staysail set in place of the jib. We were now within two days of Fiji and needed to maintain speed to arrive at the...
We reefed and then unreefed the mainsail many times. I had lubed the main halyard with vaseline where it bends around the masthead sheave, mostly as...
We checked out with the Gendarme on Raiatea, and duly put the last day of our visa as our exit date. There was a big swell rolling in from a passing...
We made it! Currently sitting in the absolute flat calm harbor at Savusavu, Fiji. We had a good passage, just shy of 16 days. That is a bit slow, we...
Inside the lagoon the water was mostly flat, though we could feel some swell that made it over the reef for the first time. We left Raitea and headed...
Our last adventure on Tahaa was to snorkel the coral gardens. We anchored up on the reef side of the lagoon, and rowed in to a little channel between...
We walked the road for a ways. It was completely peaceful and unspoiled. This must be the least touristed of the main Society Islands, and the people...