Tag: Maupihaa

  • Passage Making:Maupihaa to ?

    Day 1:  Due to our last-minute decision of leaving today (rather than tomorrow), there was suddenly much to get accomplished.  Calder and Chris scrubbed the hull, attached our Code Zero sail, and secured the dinghy.  Cora and I prepped passage food, prepared schoolwork that could be done underway, and cleaned the boat.  For this passage,…

  • Maupihaa Part 2: Waiting for a Weather Window

    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. …

  • Maupihaa: Adventures in Atoll Living

    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…