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 […]
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