Peggy & Pat's Sailing Adventures
Note: These events occurred in July 2022 but I am writing this in Dec 2023. Time marches on and, while we would love to have stayed in Rangiroa and the Tuamotus longer, we needed to move on. Our next port would be Tahiti, almost 210 nm to the southwest. When we plan passages, our calculations are based on averaging 5
Note: These events happened in July 2022 but I am writing this post in Dec 2023. July 11 we left Anse Amyot cove in Toau, heading to Rangiroa. It’s just over 100nm and the tide tables said about 8am would be a good time to enter the pass on Rangiroa so we did an overnight sail. Conditions were great with
Note: Although I am writing this in Dec 2023, these events happened in July, 2033. On July 6 we left Fakarava for Toau, the next atoll up the chain, just a few miles to the North West. Our sailing distance was a bit over 40nm, an easy day sail. Luckily the north pass out of Fakarava is wide and deep
Note: Although I am writing this in Dec 2023, these events happened in June & July 2022. On June 26 Peggy returned! She had been gone since May 19 when we were in Nuka Hiva. I met her at the nice, small airport in Fakarava, just a few miles from the dinghy doc in Rotoava. We did a bit of
Fakarava has great snorkeling!
Note: I wrote this from home in San Diego on Sept24, 2023 but it is about events more than a year earlier, June 10 – 25, 2022. As mentioned on the last posting, we went from 4 people on Calista to just me! I had tons of maintenance work to keep me busy and a lagoon full of great snorkeling
Note: While I published this from San Diego in Feb 2023, this is about events on June 9 & 10, 2022 On June 9 we pulled anchor and headed from Tetamanu in the south of Fakarava to Rotoava in the north. We took a route inside the lagoon that is well mapped but fairly narrow and we motored the 29nm.
We left Makemo in the morning, caught the exiting tide and had an easy time going out the passage. We mostly motor-sailed the first day but the wind filled in early evening and had a nice sail through the night and were outside the south passage into Fakarava mid morning. The map shows the 135 nautical mile passage. Makemo to
Makemo is an atoll, about 20 miles long and 2 to 5 miles wide with one good pass and one kinda shallow sketchy pass. The water in the lagoon is about 82 degrees and wonderfully clear. With the wind coming from the north, we were nicely protected, tucked up close to shore. Most of the land is low coral and
It’s almost 2 am June 5 and we’re less than 18 miles from Makemo. We pulled anchor from Raroia around noon (with considerable difficulty, having misjudged our speed when dropping the anchor so that it ended up stuck in rocks) and exited the pass around 13:00. We would love to have stayed longer, enjoying the warm clear water. It also