Good bye Moorea hello Huahine
Zepher
Chris & Lyn Darch
Sun 17 Aug 2008 06:24
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16:42.86S
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Hi Folks,
We departed Cooks bay ( Moorea) at 13:30 p.m. for
the next Island 90 miles away called Huahine its in the island chain which
includes Bora Bora which is some 45 miles to the west.
We set off with perfect trade winds, 15 to 20
knots blowing from an easterly direction and for a change in the Pacific it did
, we set the fore sail out on the spinnaker pole and just sat back , set the
course and off we went, our user friendly watch system of two on six off meant
that we had a good nights sleeps as we were wafted along by the trades to our
destination, the moon was so bright last night that it was almost like daylight
, so no star gazing just a bright moon lit night .
We arrived off the southern tip of the Island
at 06:00 and made our way up the west side as far as we could with the down wind
rig, 4 miles to go and we ran out of puff , could not be arsed to de-rig the
pole system, the batteries needed a charge after the auto pilot had been on all
night, so we switched on " Geoff " and he glided us the rest of the way to the
anchorage, once again the French do a really great job of marking the reef
channels I wonder if this will be the case in Tonga .. they don't have EU
funding !
Arrived at the anchor at 09:00 hook down
again in 20m of water , then tidy all the various lines away and put the druids
up , this is the affectionate name we have for our wind scoops over the hatches,
pic to follow , yes there will be photos in the next few days as we have limited
internet access here .
Rhythm arrived in the early afternoon, so we had a
chin wag late afternoon comparing notes on the journey and discussing
filling dive bottles, a hot topic at the moment as the fill charge is
extortionate , should have bought a compressor !
A fully anchored crew !gggggggggg
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