YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2009/08/24 00:57 LATITUDE: 14-27.54S LONGITUDE: 146-01.15W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 11 WIND_DIR: 080T CLOUDS: 35% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1012.5 AIR_TEMP: 30.6C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Manihi Atoll, Tuamotus. Having desert with Xavier Michel!….
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
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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
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2009/08/21 01:51 LATITUDE: 15-18.38S LONGITUDE: 146-22.80W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 6 WIND_DIR: 090T CLOUDS: 30% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1012.2 AIR_TEMP: 32.8C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Apataki Atoll, North Pass area…NO Boats here.
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2009/08/21 01:51 LATITUDE: 15-18.38S LONGITUDE: 146-22.80W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 6 WIND_DIR: 090T CLOUDS: 30% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1012.2 AIR_TEMP: 32.8C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Apataki Atoll, North Pass area…NO Boats here.
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
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2009/08/13 01:41 LATITUDE: 15-48.17S LONGITUDE: 146-09.06W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 6 WIND_DIR: 031T CLOUDS: 40% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1014.3 AIR_TEMP: 31.1C COMMENT: Beach House – MOORED – Anse Amyot, Toau Island….8 boats here!
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2009/08/10 23:02 LATITUDE: 16-03.67S LONGITUDE: 145-37.17W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 8 WIND_DIR: 329T CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1014.7 AIR_TEMP: 30.6C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Fakarava NORTH, Toau Island tomorrow
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.
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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.
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