Marqueses to Tuamotous

Peyton weigel

We left the Marqueses with a light wind forecast of 3 days. Had a slow start but picked up significant wind day 2. Potentially could have sped up the boat to shave a day off the trip, but to be certain of making the atoll pass on time we ended up slowing down significantly. Turns out Azurite is a hard boat to slow down and even with a deeply reefed main and stay sail we had a really hard to getting under 4kts. Caught a monster yellowfin tuna we estimated to be -150lbs. Happy to be in the Atolls and eating sushi

Boat & Crew

Azurite

Oyster, 56

Casey Joerndt

Bartender

Melissa Valentini

Hitching a ride

Julie Dauer

Deckhand

leanne schliesman

First Mate

Peyton weigel

Owner