Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 10:34 AM Bora Bora and Boat Pictures John & Brimman Intention at Blody Mary’s dock just before getting crashed by Moorings 47 Rick and the faulty mooring at Bloody Mary’s Bora Bora Church Sunset Friends on Bora Bora Bora Bora Bora Bora Fish Seller Bora Bora Bora Bora Jim is […]

Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 10:33 AM In Raiatea Jim Jim Jim in Hospital before operation Riaitea’s sacred Marae Over 3,000 skulls and skeletons found in side. Many over 8 feet tall Different view of Riaitea’s sacred Marae Jack on fleetwood starting up the river Polynesian Navigators sacred marae Further up the river Jim and […]

Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 10:33 AM Maupiti View of the Treacherous Maupiti Pass Maupiti Sunset Ui and Johm working on the swinging patio lounge Close-up of Treacherous Maupiti Pass Intention anchored off the Quai under the mountain Ui taking us out to the Motu View from the motu to Maupiti Maupiti Island

Arrival in Nuie Sept. 29th – Arrival in Nuie Nuie is an elevated coral outcropping perched on top of a seamount rising from very deep water. Its 100 square miles makes it the largest coral island in the world. We arrived just after noon in exactly 4 days for the 570 miles traveled and picked […]

Sept 23rd & 24th – Sept. 23rd – Aitutaki We’re still anchored in an open roadstead out side the reef of Aitutaki, the Cooks Islands. Great friendly people and they all speak English so communication is much easier than my broken French. Brimman and I are renting motorcycles today to tour the the island. We […]

Sept. 20 – Arrived Aitutki, Cooks Islands Arrived in Aitutki after a three and a quarter day passage of 450 NM. Met lots of wonderful friendly people, Explored the main city by the harbor which is too shallow for us to enter so we’re anchored in a very rollie open roadstead. Going to take on […]

Sept. 6th through 18th Sept. 6th – New crew arrived today, Brimman My new crew,Brimman, is from 15 years earlier when we cruised out here with his family on their 50 foot aluminum boat. He was 5 years old at the time and is 20 now. A great guy and a great crew. Brimman arrived […]

Sept. 1st – REturned to Bora BoraRetrived my anchor We mostly motored for six hours back to Bora Bora today because it is the only time the winds would be favorable in the next 5 days and we did get to sail the last hour and a half. It’s been squalls and rain showers since […]

Aug. 30th – Impressions and experiences of Mopeti Hi It seems my experience of our week and a half at Mopeti was a very friendly culture. Or may be it was the opportunity to hang out with a local all day for almost a week The culture of Mopeti is softer and relationship orientated and […]

Aug. 28th – Another Tahitian Feast Today at noon all the cruisers (7 people on 3 boats) here in Mopeti are went to another Tahitian feast today with some local people John and I met here on Mopeti. Their names are Simon and Ui who speak some English. They prepared a Tahitian feast for us […]