Great wind and a top speed of 14 knots until we blew out the Spinnaker halyard. Easy fix!

Another beautiful day

A nice jump to Fakarava.

The Tuamotos are all they're cracked up to be! 😍 We've been eating lots of coconuts and sprouts. Since the fish inside the atolls are a high risk of Ciguatera.

Nice little sail once we got our anchor chain unwrapped from a bommie. Even with four floats the chain found a nice place to hook this morning. Otherwise, a nice slow sail.

Ol Goose was a bit too quick so we heaved to and floated for a few hours waiting to enter the pass at Makemo.

This place is ridiculous. 🤤

It's so beautiful. Now, time to make a margherita.

As we were headed back to the big city on Nuku Hiva the wind and dolphins seemed to beckon us a different direction so now we're at Ua Pou

It lost connection. Bye bye 💸😬

No fish, but Kelsey was able to reel in our hand line before a big sailfish got it! He took some bits and followed it up to the boat. glad we didn't hook him!

We did it!!!

After waiting on the canal, the canal transit and now provisioning on the other side and running endless errands its finally time to get away from the city!! We slow sailed to a nearby island and there isn't a building in sight. 😍 Plus, we caught a Giant Trevally!

8 years ago while Overlanding the Pan American Highway camped in the jungle looking at the Canal we met a guy who would become one of our best friends. Today we had him and his wife, and a couple of other cool travelers, on board our boat to head through the canal. 4 days ago we were filling out paperwork while people told us it was crazy to not use an agent or that we would have to wait a month or two to cross. Yesterday we called to see if we were in the schedule and heard we had a rare and coveted one day, daytime crossing. It was exhausting and so much fun to share this with friends from Panama. This is what traveling is all about for us. Putting yourself out there to meet people from completely different backgrounds that are exactly the same as you. 😁😍🤙