It was an early departure for us from Bora Bora to make the crossing over to Maupiti. The winds were light and variable but this meant that due to calmer seas the spinnaker could be poled out and with all the "rag thrown up" we made a good pace albeit arriving at Maupiti 1.5hours after high tide. Leigh was looking to try and squeeze Mi Querida in through the narrow pass around 3pm high tide. The sea maps showed many coral heads and shallow areas so we wanted as ...

Is the crown jewel in French Polynesias five star resort crown and therefore we were looking to be impressed. We set sail from Raiatea at about three in the afternoon which was a little later than expected since Leigh had bumped into some old friends and the reunion deserved "a couple of coldies" (beers). This meant that our arrival to BoraBora would probably be by night as the crossing would take up to 5-6 hours. The passage into the lagoon between underwater ro...

The crossing from Tahiti to Raiatea on the yacht "Mi Querida" took almost two days and one night. A little slower (by about a day!) than Leigh had predicted but you can't control the wind and there wasn't much of it. What wind we did have however, was directly behind us so it was a comfortable crossing and we had the spinnaker sail up (huge kite like sail out the front) all the way. Leigh put us on our first night watch together to get used to it and we passed a...

We arrived back on Tahiti with our bags and tent packed ready to join the crew of the Catamaran Sonadora. The owner/captain of the vessel is 73 year old Carole May who is a fellow Brit. Carole has been sailing around the world for the past 5 years picking up crew and skippers on the way. We were joining Carole, Sam and the latest crew member Fred for our passage to the Cook Islands. Sam is a 25 year old New Zealand surf dude who if he was anymore laid back he wou...

Just to let everyone know that we are alive and very well in sunny French Polynesia. We have set up our little tent on Moorea and have our own little stretch of beach and excellent snorkeling opportunities right on our doorstep. Luckily the price of stuff is not as high as we had been led to believe but its still stretching our pockets. We are putting up some notices in the yacht clubs to try and get passage to New Zealand by working as crew so keep your fingers...