We are very pleased to report that we got our rigging piece installed fairly easily on Friday. Hurray, we are a sailboat again! And hurray for a project being easierthan we imagined it would be - for once!
On Friday we had the rigging installed by 10AM, then went ashore for a celebratory ice cream and made a few phone calls. Then back to the boat to stow as much stuff as possible for traveling. In the afternoon Jeff cooked up a bunch of food. It usually takes us a few days to get our sealegs back at the beginning of a passage, so it's nice to have some easy to eat/reheat food in the fridge. This time we have some chicken parmesan, asian style chicken wings, and pasta salad, and probably some other stuff I've forgotten.
On Saturday we got up at 4AM and went ashore for the weekly farmers market. We were able to get some nice fresh fruit and veggies, and we walked to the store and got a bunch of fresh baguettes (these are quite inexpensive here in French Polynesia - apparently they are subsidized by the French who must have learned their lesson about expensive bread). Then back to the boat where packed and stowed the dingy, the propane tanks, and a few other last minute items. We left Nuka Hiva at about 8AM.
We are now on our way to the Tuamotus, which are about 400 miles away. They are predicting light winds so we are expecting the trip to take 4-5 days. We will be submitting Yotreps position reports so you can follow our progress on that website, if you like.
We are excited to see something different. The Marquesas are tal, steep,l volcanic islands with very few reefs. The Tuamotus are low lying atolls. Some are just a ring of reef of around a big circle of water, some have a ring of land around a circle of water, and others are more like a low-lying island with a ring of reef around them. We'll report more later after we've actually seen em.
On Friday we had the rigging installed by 10AM, then went ashore for a celebratory ice cream and made a few phone calls. Then back to the boat to stow as much stuff as possible for traveling. In the afternoon Jeff cooked up a bunch of food. It usually takes us a few days to get our sealegs back at the beginning of a passage, so it's nice to have some easy to eat/reheat food in the fridge. This time we have some chicken parmesan, asian style chicken wings, and pasta salad, and probably some other stuff I've forgotten.
On Saturday we got up at 4AM and went ashore for the weekly farmers market. We were able to get some nice fresh fruit and veggies, and we walked to the store and got a bunch of fresh baguettes (these are quite inexpensive here in French Polynesia - apparently they are subsidized by the French who must have learned their lesson about expensive bread). Then back to the boat where packed and stowed the dingy, the propane tanks, and a few other last minute items. We left Nuka Hiva at about 8AM.
We are now on our way to the Tuamotus, which are about 400 miles away. They are predicting light winds so we are expecting the trip to take 4-5 days. We will be submitting Yotreps position reports so you can follow our progress on that website, if you like.
We are excited to see something different. The Marquesas are tal, steep,l volcanic islands with very few reefs. The Tuamotus are low lying atolls. Some are just a ring of reef of around a big circle of water, some have a ring of land around a circle of water, and others are more like a low-lying island with a ring of reef around them. We'll report more later after we've actually seen em.
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