6/30 — Papette Hi We’ve arrived in Papette, Tahiti and are busy exploring the big city. The reception with sail mail was very poor this morning but I will try again. Love to all Jim

Monday June 27th Aloha all- We anchored yesterday evening just inside the south end of the lagoon (still on Fakarava Island). The village here is Tetamanu. We anchored a few hundred yards from a huge yacht from Australia. The people came over to say ‘hello’ & Jim asked them if we could join them in […]

June 26th – Sailing through life Hi everyone I hope your days have been joyous peaceful and extraordinarily beautiful as that is the way it is here. We crew and INTENTION are sailing directly downwind under an asymmetrical spinnaker on the starboard and a poled out jib on the port doing about 4.5 knots through […]

Sunday – June 26th – more Fakarava It’s early morning. I’m sitting in the cockpit typing this as the sun is slowly rising over palm trees and a quaint Catholic Church off the port bow. The crew is fast asleep below after a late night dinner and revelry at at a villager’s house, Pourini, last […]

Thursday June 23rd – Good morning from the atoll of Fakarava Good morning to all I awoke this morning after having slept under a sky of sparkling stars out in the cockpit. Now the water in this lagoon is so flat and calm that when looking off to the horizon the blue of the sky […]

Tuesday, June 21st Kaoha, all- Okay, so a few days have lapsed. I admit that I just finished the ‘June 16th’ entry today. It’s been perking in my brain all of this time & finally emerged. There’s something about being ‘out at sea’ that inspires the writing. (I think it’s called ‘captivity’ We left the […]

Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 10:29 PM Intention in the Marquesas By Paul Elliott On June 2, I flew from San Francisco, through Los Angeles, to Papeete, Tahiti. The next morning, I took a small inter-island flight to the Island of Hiva-Oa, in the southern Marquesas. Intention and crew sailed into Tahauku Bay, near the […]

June 17th – Tuamotus Bound Hello to all friends and family We departed Daniels Bay after spending the morning getting good water there. We are currently on our 500 mile sail heading toward the island of Katiu in the Tuamotus. This is an Island I visited 15 years ago with many fond memories and extraordinary […]

Thursday, June 16th Hello to our beautiful family- Thursday, June 16th Sorry about the communication drought (on my part–Jim’s been beautifully taking up the slack). Once we hit land, we just haven’t had nearly the time to write as before. SO many adventures, so little time. Big, bad bummer that our angel Paul Elliott left […]

June 12th – Oa-POU Hi to all friends and family We arrived in Ua-Pou after an overnight sail of 110 miles from FATA HIVA and got anchored around 1 PM. We are loving it. Just had a moving interaction and connection with a Marquesan family that invited us to a snack of assorted dishes with […]