Peggy & Pat's Sailing Adventures
We pulled anchor about 8am March 6 and headed out of Cooks Bay towards Raiatea, a distance of about 120 nm. The wind was light initially but got to about 15 knots after an hour so we put up the sails and the wind pushed us along nicely – for about 3 hours when the wind died. Sails down, motor
On March 4, after a few very nice days in Opunohu Bay, we pulled anchor and moved a few miles east to Cooks Bay. The name is a bit curious because there is no record of Captain Cook ever entering this bay but….. Exiting the bay, we passed a cruise ship, the Paul Gauguin, that mostly travels within French Polynesia.
At 11am Feb 29 (Leap Day!) we cast off the dock lines and headed out of Marina Tahina in Tahiti, bound for Moorea! We left via the pass just south of the marina to avoid going through the controlled space near the airport and into Papeete harbor where it can get a bit crowded. It was an easy exit and
I will be flying from San Diego to Tahiti on Feb14 / 15. Peggy will follow a week later. I have two large bags to check, full of supplies and equipment. The piece I am most excited about is our new Starlink satellite dish. I hope to get that setup quickly and have good internet from then on. Difficult internet
After much effort, it looks like I finally have the new website working well enough. If you look back through the blog posts, you will see more than six posts that never were posted on the old site. The most recent ‘real post’ is about our plans for 2024. You might look around at other parts of the new website.
We are in San Diego planning our adventures for next year. The saying goes “A sailor’s plans are written in the sand at low tide” meaning it’s our best guess now, and things will change. But so far, here is what we are thinking: But now we are in San Diego, enjoying the view from our condo where we look
Note: These events happened in July & August 2023 but I am writing this in Dec 2023l On July 20 Peggy’s cousin Pat & her husband Steve joined us in Tahiti. They are VERY experienced boaters. Steve is a sailing instructor (and a professional trumpet player) and they owned Ahelani, an Outbound 46 monohull for many years. Peggy did the
Note: Although this is being written in Dec 2023, this is about our trip in July 2023. After nearly a year, I flew back to Calista on July 6. Calista was mostly in good shape but there was still a ton of work needed to get ready to sail later in the month. Calista was ‘med-moored’ in a row of
Note: This is being written in Dec 2023 but it recounts events from Sept/Oct 2022. In September we planned to fly back to Tahiti where Peggy’s cousin Frank & his wife Lisa would join us for a cruise to Moorea. That was the plan…. Turns out I had mis-read the visa rules for French Polynesia and I would not be
Note: These events happened in July 2022 but the post was written in Dec 2023. Tahiti is a pretty big island so it made sense to start with a day trip in a car to get a sense of the place. Back in Fakarava we had met Hugh, a single-handed sailor who had done the PPJ this year as we