Our crossing over to American Samoa was very quick. On leaving Suwarrow our fellow sailors on the other boats were predicting 4 days 3 nights. We made it in 52 hours. Mi Querida had clocked a new all time high speed of 11.6 knots and we averaged 8 knots for the entire journey. Leigh was rather chuffed with the boats successful crossing and we thought it was a good way to end our trip on the boat with a problem free smooth crossing. The island of Tutuila used to ...

Our sail over to Suwarrow was the complete opposite to the journey from Maupiti to Rarotonga. Approximately the same distance we had the wind from the South East as it should be, the boat was heeled over on the opposite side and we made good progress as the swells were with us also. The other difference being is that it was Katie who felt crook this time. Pretty much from when we set sail Katie was fine as long as she could remain on deck. If she was to go below ...

The crossing to Aitutaki was the complete opposite of our Rarotonga crossing with the boat heeled over in the opposite direction and the wind behind us for a change! The entrance into the lagoon is very shallow and must be attempted at around high tide. We had missed that so had to anchor just outside the pass. On the way in to our first nights anchorage we broke our luck of Jonah and managed to catch two Blue Trevallys on the lures much to Katies excitement so ...

Our first extensive blue water sailing over to Rarotonga left me feeling like a husk of a man upon arrival. Our passage over had been 5 days and 4 nights and Leigh reckoned that the crossing was his 3rd most uncomfortable in all 12 years of his sailing… The curse of the Whites strikes again! Our first day at sea had seen decent weather with swells from two different angles. We were expecting the trade winds to help us on our way but the wind was hard on the no...

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 ...