Canada and Gulf Islands
I'm cleared into Canada and can stay for one year, providing I don't work or enter education.. Ha! Fat chance.
On arrival at Coast Marina in Victoria on Vancouver Island, Klaus and Pam, friends of my cousin, came to see if I needed anything....
On arrival at Coast Marina in Victoria on Vancouver Island, Klaus and Pam, friends of my cousin, came to see if I needed anything....
Canada
I'm now in Canada having arrived a few weeks ago after a very difficult passage.
I left Nuku Hiva with good winds heading roughly north towards Haweii. All went well and I made good progress, dodging around the lows and highs. But at 800 miles from...
I left Nuku Hiva with good winds heading roughly north towards Haweii. All went well and I made good progress, dodging around the lows and highs. But at 800 miles from...
1 degree south of the equator
I eventually was happy that Fleur was ready do leave Tahiti so set off for Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas. What an awful passage... Sailing against the wind, the current and the swell. It was very hard going tacking like saw teeth.
I arrived in...
I arrived in...
Nuku Hive the hard way
I left Tahiti on Monday 7th March and today, Sunday 13th March I'm less than half way there!
The weather was not favourable. First I sailed north and when I reached the Tuamotus the wind gods smiled on me and I shot through NE between Mataiva and...
The weather was not favourable. First I sailed north and when I reached the Tuamotus the wind gods smiled on me and I shot through NE between Mataiva and...
Leaving Tahiti - again
After the panic with the loss of water from the water tank I returned to marina Papeete and almost picked up the berth I had before I departed for Raivavae.
The tank is holding water thank goodess. And I have found something out. If I turn...
The tank is holding water thank goodess. And I have found something out. If I turn...
Becalmed
It seems that my water tank has sprung a leak. I had 450lt in it one evening and it was empty the next morning... But could I find where the water had gone? No! I looked in all the lockers... dry. Under the sole...dry. In the bilge... same as usual. I fired...