Dear F&F, August 27, 2009 Manihi Diving At 2:30 p.m. it has already been a great day. Serge, Marc & Wilfred picked us up at the Manihi Pearl Beach Resorts dive boat. Wilfred is the assistant manager of the Pearl Beach Resort Hotel in Tikihau, the last Tuamotu island we may visit, before Tahiti just …
Dear F&F, August 24-26, 2009 Manihi Life This is a nice spot, very comfortable anchorage. A 3rd sailboat pulled in today, \”Aquarius\”. The captain is an older British guy, Arthur, with 2 crew (1 South African, 1 from the Canary Islands). He\’s been cruising 20 years, since his wife passed away. Scott tried to help …
Dear F&F, August 23, 2009 Manihi – Tuamotu Atoll We decided to head to Manihi for a few reasons. We both woke up before the 5:00 a.m. alarm so got a good jump on hoisting the anchor, which was made easy since the lift bags we put on yesterday kept the chain off the coral …
Dear F&F, August 20-22, 2009 Apataki, Tuamotu Atolls We had one more day of diving at Toau\’s coral garden. The following day we dinghied out there but had to cancel diving due to 6 foot breaking waves on the reef. The next day we decided we\’d had our fill of Toau, so slipped our lines …
Dear F&F, August 12-17, 2009 Toau, Tuamotu Atolls It was about a 5 hour easy motor from Fakarava to Toau. The entry into the mooring area was pretty easy. There was some current, the opening of coral not too narrow & shallowest depth seen was 25 feet. The mooring area is kind of a \”cul …
Dear F&F, August 9-10, 2009 We patched the gennaker successfully. I went snorkeling to cool off, very nice. Then a nap & editing my journal for the website\’s \”Ships Logs\”. There are now four other boats anchored by us, one is \”Uliad\” who we first met via radio sailing on the Galapagos to Marquesas passage. …
Dear F&F, August 7-8, 2009 We had a fantastic week of diving with the parade of sharks in the south pass with Marc, Jill & Dan. We like them all & hope we stay in touch. Jill & Dan travel a lot, so maybe they will meet us somewhere else for diving in the future. …
Dear F&F, August 1-4, 2009 We have sort of lost track of our time here (that\’s a good thing) so I looked it up: half a month on this atoll & we could stay another week. Here\’s what\’s happened the past 4 days: August 1 Fun dive with Jill, Dan, Marc and several hundred gray …
Dear F&F, July 31, 2009 It just occurred to me as I began writing that these \”Ships Logs\” are like an email reality show. Nearly live, from around the world. What is the \”Beach House\” crew up to now? I invited David & Mary to dinner last night since I know that they are heading …
Dear F&F, July 30, 2009 We love to get emails from our friends and family. What you read on as these \”Ships Logs\” begins as a more raw email update to my closest supporters. They are not well edited & can be whiney at times. After reading such an email, I received this heartfelt reply …