Visitors, Take Four!
A new boat in the Taiohae anchorage, Baidarka, is from the U.S. and has a teenage boy and his dad on board. Griffin and Ezra met and hung out a few times as did the adults before they took off around the corner to Daniel’s Bay. In the few days between visitors we did better […]
Visitors, Take Three
Our third group of visitors, Ann and Gwen, are tough travelers! From Tahiti, they first flew to Nuku Hiva where we were but the airline wouldn’t let them change their ticket to get off. They stayed on board and flew to Hiva Oa where we were originally going to tmeet them. After a night in […]
Kicking Off 2026
With the McCormicks on their way home, we hung out in Taiohae for the coming of the New Year. On shore there was a party that we decided to go to along with a bunch of other boaters. We had dinner on our boat, met up with Henk and Caroline from Pandion on shore, and […]
Christmas Visitors
We enjoyed our time in Taipivai and Hooumi, two anchorages to the East of Taiohae, and we lucked out that there weren’t many other boats there and the weather was awesome. Now it was time to head back over to the big town of Taiohae and get ready to pick up our cousins, Nicole, Sean […]
Four Islands, One Blog Post
Time for another big catch up! Greg and I chatted about how I could make these posts more abbreviated but to be honest, I’m writing all this so I have a way to remember things, not for a cute little story to share with anyone reading. Feel free to just scan and move on with […]
Spot, Speedy, Nacho, and Tiger
Our crossing to the isle of Tahuata in the Marquesas went smoothly, it was so nice to be out on the ocean again. The wind kept encouraging us to head further North but we stayed in point mode and arrived in Hapatoni after 74 hours of sailing. We planned not to go too fast, especially […]
Makemo
Huzzah for a new atoll! We departed Fakarava from its North pass on October 14th in the early afternoon. Our friends on Morning Stars had departed earlier in the morning so that we would both arrive during the favorable pass current. Our destination was Makemo atoll, about 150 miles away to the SE and straight […]
Chores and Weather
In the lee of a motu in the SE corner of Fakarava atoll we hid from the days of high winds with many other like minded sailors. We enjoyed the company of our friends on Tino Pai, Calypso, and Morning Stars yet there were lots more boats to meet so we had the boys zoom […]
The Joy of an Invasion
Why are we doing this? A grand adventure? A sense of accomplishment? Experience? Exploration? Discovery? All those things but what stands out right now is connecting with people. We’ve met fantastic new friends, shared stories with friends back home, and laughed with everyone. Our friend Julie took it up a level and flew all the […]
School Days
The math book and pencils are out on the table and I’m going to be looking up definitions for math terms I haven’t heard in decades, or maybe ever, as part of my new role onboard of math teacher. Our longest term buddy boat with another 13 year old boy on it, Morning Stars, had […]