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Odyssey WE|Sail Charter
Denver, Colorado
WE are Warren & Erica. We have been sailing and living aboard full time our Fountaine Pajot Helia 44 catamaran VA for 5 years. Starting totally green in the Caribbean we are slowly working our way around the world. We have been sailing and loving French Polynesia for the last 2 years. We love scuba diving, exploring remote destinations, meet local people and learn about new cultures, fly drones, film and host parties aboard our floating home!
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! 🚐