What have we been up to

The Kingdom of Tonga! It was a 10day passage from Maupiti to Vava’u in Northern Tonga – the longest passage so far. All the wind models indicated that we should take a broad northerly sweep to avoid...

After spending such a fabulous time with Alice & Wil, it was time to look ahead to leaving French Polynesia and heading westward. There were a couple of reasons why we wanted to move reasonably quickly...

Our passage back from Tahanea to Moorea was a good one. Apart from some heavy rain showers when we passed north of Tahiti, we had a dry, calm and following wind trip. We even got to use our symmetrical...

Our first night’s passage out of the Gambier Islands on the way to Tahanea provided a real treat – a blood moon eclipse! And a very fine spectacle it was too as the night was cloudless & we were...

We had read about Hervé and Valerie in our cruising compendium and as I mentioned before, they are well known to the cruising community. They live with their son on the eastern side of Taravai, in a lovely...