3:00am 7/30: Can you say Wahooooooooooooooooooo!!!!! Yep, that’s right…caught a 50″ 30-lb Wahoo today……biggest one we have ever caught……what a beautiful fish and was it ever good to eat!!!!! I fought it for 10-15 minutes while Kathy only slowed to 5 kts…..I thought it was a tuna as it went deep but it eventually surfaced … Read More →
Monthly Archives: July 2013
Conditions, Superstitions, and a Rant
Monday, July 29 It’s 0600 on the beginning of our 4th day at sea on our passage from Bora Bora to Suwarrow. I’ve just come back on watch and John has laid down to rest. The conditions are remarkably similar to what they were when I went off watch at 0200. In fact, they are … Read More →
Bora Bora to Suwarrow, Cook Islands, Day 3
Day 3: 3:00 am 7/29 My mom turns 90 today….whoa!!! Happy Birthday Mom!!!! Welcome to the Pacific Dangerous Middle…..that is what they call this 1500nm stretch from French Polynesia to Fiji and it is living up to it’s reputation. We had expected calming conditions today but got the opposite. This is the area that has … Read More →
Bora Bora to Suwarrow, Cook Islands, Day 2
3:00 am 7/28 Not much to report today……just the way we like it on passage…..BORING!!!!! The conditions are moderate….we are able to move around but need to hold onto something. We both read quite a bit!!!! The conditions unexpectedly worsened overnight as a lot of squalls moved in!!! 20-230G35 kt winds – all behind us … Read More →
Bora Bora to Suwarrow, Cook Islands, Day 1
8:30 pm 7/26 We left Bora Bora today around 8:00 am. We have had a pretty boisterous day/ride so far. The winds have been 15-25 kts ESE-E and the waves 8-12′ occasional 15′ ESE…..all pretty much behind us. We do ok and then the occasional bully wave, maybe 15′ comes and gives MM’s stern a … Read More →
Not Losing It, Really!
July 15, 2013 So here it is Monday afternoon, and no sign of our missing part in Papeete. Coralie, our agent, has the freight forwarder looking for it, and they think it’s in, but no definitive word yet. In any event, our weather window has fallen apart, so we are back to the waiting game……Waiting … Read More →
The Heiva, Haircuts, and the Society Islands
July 11, 2013 Yesterday I got a haircut. In my other life, it would have been a momentary pleasure of a fresh ‘do’ with clean ends and an hour or two of me-time. Not in this life…Not out here. Instead, it was an Event….A day of celebration and victory….Yyyesss!!! Successful parsing of a person who … Read More →
Tahaa to Bora Bora
July 8, 2013 We left Tapaumau Bay on Tahaa today around 8:00 am heading to Bora Bora. We are both excited about seeing Bora Bora….it just seems to conjure up all the iconic images of the South Pacific. This is supposedly the fictional island Bali Hai in Michner’s South Pacific…..but we have since learned he … Read More →
Huahine to Tahaa
July 5, 2013: We left Huahine for Tahaa (just north of Raiatea) around 8:00am. It’s a run of about 40 nm but only 20 nm outside the reef and in the open ocean. We left today as the winds are predicted to be 15-22 kts pretty much behind us and the seas in the 5-9′ … Read More →
Moorea to Huahine French Polynesia
July 2, 2013 2:00 am: We left Cook’s Bay on Moorea around midnight. Another boat (from Oregon of all places) had anchored a little too close and we were concerned they were over our anchor. We had gone over to introduce ourselves and let them know we would be leaving at midnight. They said they … Read More →