Dear F&F, July 3-4, 2009 We just crossed to our third Marquesas Island, Tahuata. It was 6 hours and mostly down wind. The swell was not completely behind us, but starboard & aft. A much more comfortable passage than from Hiva Oa to Fatu Hiva, thank God! Despite putting on a half patch last night, […]
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Dear F&F, July 2, 2009 Yesterday the tender (dinghy) from the 140 foot schooner had only 2 crew members aboard & was zooming by fairly close to Beach House, so in addition to a friendly wave to them, I waved them over to meet us. We met the engineer who is from Holland & deckhand
Dear F&F, June 30, 2009 We were awakened several times throughout the night with gusts of winds up to 35 knots. The feel & sound of this is impossible to ignore even though we are confident that our anchor will hold. It also rained hard off & on. We have had these conditions to some
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Dear F&F, June 28, 2009 It was my best night of sleep in a long time. Fantastic to wake up & feel good right off the bat. Splendid! We spoke to David & Mary on the radio & agreed that this was to be our day to hike to the waterfall, rain or shine. There
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Dear F&F, June 27, 2009 Since it was another windy rainy day, not great for going ashore, Mary & David again came over for lunch. Our boat is so great for entertaining indoors or out with less motion, so less tendency for seasickness at anchor than on a monohull. On the radio last night I
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Dear F&F, June 24-26, 2009 I am reading a book with this title. Thor Heyerdahl, a young Norwegian man and wife Liv decide to \”return to nature\” in the 1930s just before the outbreak of World War II. He had studied anthropology in college and believed people would be better off living off the land
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Dear F&F, June 23-24 This is a \”True Story\” and happened over the last 36 hours here at Fatu Hiva, Marquesas. For the last 20 months, we\’ve virtually had no anchoring stories of note, at least not those caused by other boats. Well all that changed with no less than four boats here in Fatu
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2009/06/25 01:12 LATITUDE: 10-27.88S LONGITUDE: 138-40.12W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 9 WIND_DIR: E CLOUDS: 80% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1012.4 AIR_TEMP: 26.1C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Fatu Hiva, a blustery beat, 25 knots upwind, Windy Anchorge, a bit crowded.
Dear F&F, June 21-23, 2009 We paid a lot for a very sketchy log-on WiFi. Every time we can get on the internet the first thing I do is review our bank and credit card statements. Unfortunately I discovered our American Express card has been used fraudulently. Someone in Mexico made charges with our number.
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Dear F&F, Skye wrote this lovely piece on her Grandmother Anne\’s passing placed in the \”show business trades\” by CBS Television. Devoted CBS Business Affairs executive Anne Roberts Nelson died Saturday, June 20, 2009 at her beloved Baldwin Hills home from natural causes. The proud South Pasadena native and third generation Californian earned her B.A.
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