Travel – Page 7 – Andrew & Jazz

Tahanea, Tuamotus, French Polynesia

Exiting an atoll at twilight is a little unsettling. Despite having seen during daylight that the route we were retracing[…]

Passage planning in the Tuamotus adds a new constraint. We’re used to checking weather and planning arrivals and departures around[…]

The passage to Raroia was three days of brutal sucky sailing, with beautiful bookends. We got out of Ua Pou’s[…]

Ua Pou was a pretty reasonable half day sail from Taiohae Bay. Jazz was getting ready to tan when Captain[…]

We left Ua Huka in the morning and put up the spinnaker as soon as we were out of the[…]

For those of you interested in the boat that was at sea with us, eating fried flying deck fish and[…]

Two major milestones from this last trip! On June 21, Jazz celebrated her 37th birthday, and at sunset Villa reached[…]

We intended to sail out of Tahuata in the morning, but then looked at our charts and realized we’d mis-planned:[…]

We sailed out of Fatu Hiva in the early morning, hoping to arrive in daylight. Winds were light, but we[…]

We had a bit of a salty sail from Hiva Oa to Fatu Hiva, which Captain protested in his new[…]