Tag: Maupiti

  • 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…

  • Society Islands Part 3: Mantas in Maupiti

    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…