05/11/2008, Tahiti/ Moorea
Infinity is happily back in the warm waters of French Polynesia just about ready to sail back to the Pacific Northwest. Elba and I arrived in Papeete about three weeks ago to put Infinity back in the water. She has been resting in the small marina in Taravao on Tahiti- Iti and was a very moldy vessel after 9 months on the hard. We scrubbed her back to brillance in time for a quick sail to Cook's Bay in Moorea. Once back in Marina Taina our final days aboard our little boat are over. She will be delivered this month via Hawaii to Port Townsend by two able sailers Michael Kramer and Raymond Donnelly who have arrived and taken charge of Infinity. Both skippers Ray and Michael have sailboats in Mexico; where we orginally met them last season before making our first Pacific crossing.
Our plans remain unchanged in the selling of Infinity once back in the states and returning to the south pacific aboard our 'new to us' boat MIST in '09.
While here in Tahiti we were happily flagged down by Francois and Fredrique who are anchored here off of Marina Taina for another year or so. We also ran into the adorable family of s/v Silence who are also anchored here for the season. We had met all of them in Marquesas last year.
Our next posting will be in a month aboard MIST. We plan to tour the Gulf and San Juans getting familiar with the boat and enjoying some cooler weather and no no-no's! We will miss the Polynesian cuisine of Poisson Cru and wonderful pamplemouse!
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12/09/2007
Happy Holidays to friends and family around the world!
Update: The Infinity's have become sv/ MIST
Susan and Elba are proud and excited to annouce that we are the new owners of sv/ MIST... a 40' Cape George Cutter which finished her first circumnavigation this last summer.
We first met MIST while anchored in Daniel's Bay on Nuka Hiva. Marquesas. Ironically, both MIST and INFINITY are Cape George Cutters - William Adkin designs reinvented in the Pacific Northwest.
After sailing INFINITY for 5+ years from Canada to Mexico then Mexico to French Polynesia; for us the decision was simple... We wanted a larger boat and it had to be another Cape George Cutter...which are beautiful seakindly vessels with a traditionally simple feel.
We look forward to seeing our old sailing friends again as well as meeting new adventurers in remote anchorages around the world.
The new owners, whoever they may be will surely fall in love with INFINITY, as we did.
As for MIST, we will be taking her back to the South Pacific in 2008/09. Our hopes are to sail westward , eventually making our way to India and Thailand, where we plan on spending several seasons .
Please feel free to contact us at our new email:
sv_mist@yahoo.com
Fairwinds and cheers to all!
Susan and Elba
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09/17/2007, Tahiti, French Polynesia
IT'S NOT A RUMOR...Infinity is FOR SALE in Tahiti...
We have purchased ANOTHER Cape George and will be continuing sailing the new boat from Tahiti -west in 2008.
We are very excited about our NEW Cape George because she is bigger !!!! We were going to throw each other overboard on the 31'....
TELL YOUR FRIENDS...spread the rumor, which happens to be true.
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