Peggy & Pat's Sailing Adventures
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
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