Short n sweet timed regatta from one bar to the next! Didn’t get dead last this time! Rounded Sandy cay for a better look and down wind to finish it off! Another beautiful day.

A lovely day for a regatta! Downwind and close calls! We just like being close to our friends! If your not first, your last! And we were last! Still had more fun than the rest 😉

Well that was sporty! Fun sail with the crew to Anagada to go get us some lobsters!

We did it! This passage completes our Pacific journey. Our 15 days at sea included 10 days waiting in Minerva Reef waiting on the right weather window to cross to New Zealand and the wait was worth it. We had one of the most beautiful crossings with ideal conditions. Most have said this crossing can be challenging and rough and cold but we definitely did not have that! Okay well, just a little colder than we are used to 🥶 In Minerva we were close to running out food, so we found us some BIG crawfish (lobsters). We hosted for sundowners on Va with the whole anchorage who were also waiting to cross to NZ. Minerva is also called the parking lot and I see why now 🅿️ Since Minerva has no land, we had to wait until low tide to get a little exercise and stretch the legs. Then leaving Minerva we hooked a massive yellowfin tuna. Dropping sails to reel it in, it took nearly an hour! The fish weighted as much as me, 55kg! So our food shortage was no longer an issue for the remainder of the passage. Conditions were so ideal that we had sushi rolls at sea;) 🍣 Crew was in very high spirits! We napped, we played cards (the boys will likely never play gin rummy with me ever again- they had no chance of winning). Combined we read 10 books underway 📚 Seeing land is always such a sweet sight after days at sea, finally something to look at aside from miles and miles of ocean blue. We’re excited to be in New Zealand and we will continue to explore, but this time with our land yacht! 🚐

And we’re off to New Zealand… We set sail from Tonga after clearing out and cleaning the hull, bound for New Zealand with the hope of stopping off in Minerva. The weather was spotty but wind on the beam with 20-25 knots and 3-4 m seas for the first day and seas to follow. Nothing we haven’t experience before, but with new crew aboard it was a good intro to what to expect beyond Minerva. As time went on, wind reduced to 15-20 knots and smoother seas (2-3m) After 2 days, made into Minerva reef for a small reprieve until the winds speak up again for us to leave for NZ.

We left American Samoa on a Tuesday and woke up in Tonga on Thursday! Technically this sail should have been faster but it linger over 3 days, or did it??? We had pretty perfect conditions to Tonga, 10-15knots of wind the whole way. Crossed the international date line and got a look into what the future holds! Not bad.

Fast trip! We had 18-25 knots on the beam with 2-3 meter seas the whole way making for a quick trip back to America… Samoa. Just a quick jaunt up here to pick up some amazon packages;)

We set sail from Suwarrow to Niue. We went from being the most alone and completely isolated in Suwarrow and hopped off to Niue. First 24 hours great start with wind on the beam 18-20knots with 2.5-3 meter following seas. The following 24 hours turned up a bit with stronger winds and bigger seas to follow. Winds up to 30 knot’s consistent for 12 hours with waves smashing onto the boat and sometimes over the boat. It was a salty sail and the final 24 hours were full of clear skies, stars and winds back to a steady 17knots. Arrived to Niue, lifted the dingy up on a crane to shore to check in. Ate some friend chicken, had an ice cold passage beer and now rest up for exploring and adventuring around Niue for the next week!

Great slow downwind sail from Bora Bora to Maupiti. Anchor down in one of the most beautiful spots… again. This is the final French Polynesian island we will sail to before heading West and onto new countries! Very excited to explore this island and soak in the last of these incredible islands. Low winds 4-8knots, average 3knots and made it through the narrow and long pass before sundowners. Glad we had calm winds and swell below 2 meters, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to enter this pass! Cheers, WE

It’s our final goodbye our favorite Polynesian paradise. It was really hard to say goodbye as this is our last days in French Polynesia. Sad to leave this place but also excited to see what’s beyond. The passage was good, a little rough with roughly 2.5 m swell with wind directly behind us on a run to Raiatea. Arrived in the morning and started the check out process! Ps- I forgot to turn off the tracker so our average was bette than 4.4 knots;)

A speedy and wild ride back to Moorea. Winds were strong, blowing 20-30 knots, but we were going downwind of it the whole time making it for one of our fastest trips back to Moorea. Personal record of 170 nm in 24 hours. Max speed of 14knots. Seas were big but VA handled beautifully. Arrived at night, but a pleasant surprise in the morning waking up to our favorite place on the planet!

Fantastic overnight sail. Timing the exit and entrance of these passes can be tricky, but the wind was exactly as predicted, light. Just what we needed to leave Tahanea with a little sunlight and enter Fakarava by sunrise. The passes must be timed just right and we nailed it. Started with flying the spinnaker but we were too fast so sailed with the jib only all night! Star were super bright!