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Dear F&F, June 24-26, 2010 Passage from Mopelia to Aitutaki June 24 One year, three days in French Polynesia….Cook Islands, here we come! Similar conditions to our Galapagos crossing: good conditions to fly spinnaker, but it is high maintenance. Full concentration steering, using long wire remote for the auto pilot. I can move around & […]

Dear F&F, June 22, 2010 Martha Stewart of Sailing Mopelia Day #18 Tuesday morning a boat came into the pass & anchored amidst the 4 of us here in Mopelia atoll. We were quite surprised that any cruising boat would venture here with the weather we have been having. This was not just any Joe

Dear F&F, June 20-21, 2010 Mopelia – Days #16-17 Sitting Out a Blow A bit of cabin fever as we are onboard for Day #4. Not that easy/safe to lower, get in, get to shore (wet landing), then raise dingy with 15-20 knots of wind especially with my right hand not fully operational. Last night

Dear F&F, June 15-18, 2010 Southeast Winds & Revenge of the Crown of Thorns June 15 After 6 days of wonderful diving in a row, we are not diving today. For one thing the place I got pricked by the Crown of Thorns seems to be having an allergic reaction and hurts like heck. Just

Dear F&F, June 12-14 More Mopelia Diving (Posted via HF Radio Email from Mopelia Atoll). After a later than normal night, we slept in a bit. When we finally got up, we were treated to a full arc, gorgeous rainbow. The sun was shining with lots of puffy clouds, absolutely magnificent. Jerome called about 8:00

Dear F&F, June 9, 2010 Wreck of the \”Seeadler\” Found (Posted via HF Radio Email from Mopelia Atoll) Scott took his video camera and we found some parts of the shipwreck, more or less in the area where Kalami outlined to Scott via stick drawing on the sand. We spent 85 minutes below. It is

Dear F&F, June 8th, 2010 Wreck of the \”Seeadler\” part 1 (Posted via HF Radio from Mopelia Atoll) While in our last island Maupiti, we had a nice dinner with friends from \”Na Maka\” and a lovely American couple from Guadalajara, David and Eileen. The owner of the \”Pension\” (family style hotel), Gerrad; told us

Dear F&F, June 7, 2010 Meeting the Locals (Posted from Mopelia Atoll via HF Radio Email) It was grey and rainy all day. In the morning we caught up on rest and correspondence. In the afternoon we went to visit sister ship, \”Na Maka\” our French friends with 3 boys. Scott and Jerome talked weather,

Dear F&F, June 4-6, 2010 Passage to Mopelia (mow-peel-ee-uh) (Posted from Mopelia Atoll via HF Radio) We had a lovely two weeks in Maupiti (mao-pee-tee). Our last day we rented bicycles for about $10 USD each to ride around the island. We got off the main road into the dirt but were redirected by some