To Fiji
I have been totally useless at keeping this blog up to date; so once again it is catch up time. The voyage from Tahiti to Fiji continued much as it was on my last update; fairly fast and boisterous. We …
Category: Offshore
Tracking Pelagic Australis
For those who want to track our voyage from Cape Town to Stanley; you can view the boat’s tracker via the Pelagic Expeditions website via this direct link. Estimated departure is the morning of Wednesday 3rd August.
Cape Town to Stanley
A screenshot from TZ Navigator V3 showing some of our past trips (in red) and a couple of sketched in options (in blue). The forecast is long range one paused on 12 August and the little blue boat icon shows …
Tahiti – paradise, not; and expensive to boot.
17:43.94S 149:19.65W Hao was a very pleasant stop but soon it was time to get moving again. We had been continuously watching the weather forecasts looking for a good window to move on to the next destination but as previously …
The Dangerous Islands
18:04.50S 140:56.60W The Tuamotus have been known as the “Dangerous Archipelago” in the past due to their very low aspect and poor charts. The highest point on Hao is recorded as being only 3m above sea level. The coconut palms …
Landfall; Rikitea, Mangareva, Gambier Islands
23:06.79S 134:58.01W We have finally arrived somewhere that has a proper anchorage, somewhere where we can anchor in still waters, and somewhere that we can set foot on dirt. We had been 32 days at sea (including one night in …