Tuesday 12 August 2014
Day 4 the winds didn’t last that long and we yet again had to do our procedure of dropping the parasailor and bringing in the water generator and getting the engine on. Mornings are quieter now as more sleep is taken to compensate for sleep lost. Onboard we have a long range radio (technically called…
Monday 11 August 2014
Saturday’s log showed we had sailed 90 nautical miles. An average day is 120 nautical miles so that goes down as a slow day! But who’s complaining when the sun is rising and a full moon is setting in synchronisation and giving the most lovely of three hundred and sixty degree skies of salmon pink,…
Sunday 10 August 2014
Day 2 Saturday 9th and some lumpy seas combined with the light winds were making it hard work for the poor parasailor (our downwind spinnaker sail). It sits there trying its best to bulge out and power us forward but most of the time it’s collapsing as a wave hits the boat before it refills…
Sunday 10 August 2014
Adina finally fled the nest of easy life in the Society Islands and being stuck in Bora Bora at just before 9am local time on Friday. We’d had two weeks of getting stuck so it was good to finally be on our way. Traditionally we keep it simple on Day 1 to help our bodies…
Friday 1 August 2014
Sailors have a lovely term for when they get stuck somewhere – they add the word glue to the destination. So we are stuck with Bora Bora Glue. Usually it’s a case of really liking somewhere and not wanting to leave and in fact not leaving because you like it so much! In our case…
Tuesday 29 July 2014
We’re now sitting in Bora Bora waiting for some decent weather to start making our crossing over to Tonga via the Cook Islands. Some stronger winds down south so looks like we will head to Tonga via Suwarrow which is located more to the north. In the mean time had to attach this photograph sent…
Monday 21 July 2014
After a month in Tahiti/Moorea, today we leave the island with arguably the best beer logo in the world! Off to Huahine, Tahaa and Bora Bora.