https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/SV-Terikah/ Here’s the link to our Predict Wind tracking page that will update our location as we travel.
About 1200 nm to Tonga. Here we sit at anchor, listening to the wind howl across our boat, waiting for a weather window. Our weather consultant (Sailing Totem) had warned us that our initial 3,000nm across the Pacific would prove less challenging than finding the right weather window in these squirrelly parts of the ocean. …
How did we end up on a 100nm overnight voyage from Maupiti to Maupihaa with a local grandmother and a pile of supplies and food for the locals? While we were in Maupiti, another cruising boat reached out to us from Maupihaa, providing us contacts to organize the passage of a woman named Norma back…
Underway at sunrise, the seas were calm and the winds light, allowing for a “productive passage” of bread-baking, laundry, and water-making. The entry into the Maupiti lagoon via its one pass, Onoiau, can be tricky and was somewhat exciting. One cannot enter the pass unless there is less than a 2 meter swell; we had…