La Trinite

Opua, new zealand

Leaving fiji on sultano, heading to new Zealand

Niuatoputapu, Tonga

15°56'S, 173°44'W
Superbe traversee de Apia a Niuatoputapu. Bon vent, pas de houle, on a mis seulement 31 heures, on est parti dimanche matin et on est arrive lundi midi. Pas tout a fait, avec le changement d heure , on est arrive Mardi midi, seulement 24 heures de decalage!! et on a attrape un autre Tazard.

Kenavo

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Wahoo

jump

bora bora

bora bora

Force 8

Talofa

Sailed into Samoa last night, just after we caught a beautiful Wahoo! We are in real Marina!
People are super friendly and hospitable. We shared our fish with the secutity guards and they sneak me out of the marina to the clubs last night..We cleared quarentine this morming.

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Ici la terre

On appercois Samoa, et on devrais jetter l ancre ce soir

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Leaving Niue

Leaving Niue, heading North to Samoa, 250 miles...

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En mer

We left Rarotonga on Saturday to Aitutaki, unfortunatly the weather did not allow us to make a stop there so we are sailing to Niue, and we should get there in 3 days, and if we get some Easterly we will be able to stop there or we will have to push it to Tonga...

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Rarotonga

Kia orana

Arrived in Rarotonga yesterday, we had a good passage. I sighted one humpback whale only 150 feet from the boat!!!!The Maori are very friendly as usual but they speak english with a kiwi accent and drive on the wrong side of the road! We have definitly left french polynesia. I will miss my Hinano.

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Leaving French Polynesia

Emil and I, are leaving Bora Bora on s/v Shanti on saturday to go to
the Cooks, and we should make landfall on thursday , 620 miles later,
in raratonga.

Shanti

New boat

After one month boat sitting in Cook's bay in Moorea. I am now on a
new boat in Bora Bora, s/v Shanti, Catalina 42. With my new skipper,
we are planning to leave to the Cooks islands within a few days if
weather permits( and immigration!)
Then Tonga where I should meet with s/v Lardo to go to New Zealand.
L'aventure continue...

Sharks swiming along..

Attacked by a ray in Moorea!!!!

Boat sitting in Moorea

I jumped ship, left SSN and now I am boat sitting "Inca" in Cook's Bay in Moorea.
looking for another boat going West, although it is very tempting to stay in here.....

Toau, anse Amyot

15/06/11
15deg48'.22S, 146deg09'.57W

We spent a week in south Fakarava, at Tmakohua pass, where we went scuba diving. We dove at 30 meters, there was lots of grey reef sharks, white tip sharks, black tip sharks and nursing sharks. We also saw some manta rays, marble groupers, parrot fishes, lion fish, ... amazing!!!.
We sailed to Fakarava north, Rotoava where we stayed a couple of days and we saw Antoine's boat., and today we sailed to Toau. Just another beautiful atoll!!:)
Tomorrow morning we will go lobster fishing!!

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Fakarava, Tetamanu

06/06/11
16deg31'13"S, 145deg28'24W

we anchored at the south pass of fakarava, waiting for the end of marabu, strong winds from south east. We might be lucky to witness the spawning of groupers and see the frenzy shark attacks. We should stay there a few days before going to the north pass and then sail to Taou, supposed to be a beautiful anchorage and then we will leave the Tuamotu and the friendly poamotus for the society islands : ia orana Tahiti!

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11/05/11
18.10 heure de Tahiti
15deg10'S, 144deg54'W
COG 214 deg T
SOG 0.8 knot

On s'est a la cape courante sous foc a-contre, et On attends depuis 14.00, a 40 miles au large de Kauehi, on a pu se reposer, cuisiner une bolognese et se baigner.
On va se remettre en allure de grand largue vers 21.00, et devrais arriver vers 5.00 au nord de kauehi. Le passe Arikitamiro, au sud est, devrait etre praticable vers 11.30, et on devrais jeter l'ancre vers 14.00, a Tearavero.
!!

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