Day 2, bye bye French Polynesia
Storyteller
Sun 25 May 2008 00:09
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Position: 15.03S 154.54W
Our headsail furler parts turned up Wednesday
evening even though DHL said they were lost. Leaving Bora Bora three days after
the official departure was no hardship as it gave Sue's leg time to heal and the
weather forecast was better than three days earlier. luckily the supply ship had
come in so we were able to stock up on pineapples, papaya and spring onions,
thing we hadn't previously been able to get on Bora Bora. Since leaving, we have
enjoyed warm sunny weather with 12 kts of breeze. The problem is that it is
coming from directly behind us! If this continues we will have to motor all the
way to Suwarrow which is still 500 miles away. However, we have plenty of fuel
and with surplus power the ice maker is working brilliantly.
Suwarrow has to be one of the most isolated places
on earth. It is a coral atoll 200 miles from the nearest inhabited island. The
is a caretaker who stays for six months of the year. We are all reading "An
Island to One's Self" by New Zealander, Tom Neal who lived alone there
for six years. We expect to arrive there at midday on
Tuesday.
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