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Bula is the friendly greeting of hello that is used by the smiling Fijians. With quarantine and testing complete, we ...
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We had met Tim, Gizmo’s owner, and Chris, her captain, in the lineup at Ha’apiti and had spent enough time ...
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Living on a boat takes a lot of forethought and preparation — studying weather, planning routes, arranging for provisioning, watering ...
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Huahine is actually two islands separated by a narrow strait (cut, as the legend goes, by the god Hiro’s canoe) ...
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Approximately 90 nautical miles from the Opunohu pass, Huahine makes for a perfect overnight sail. Billy climbed the mast to ...
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During our time quarantined at anchor, we only made brief weekly trips to shore for provisions. So, once the inter-island ...
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Hello and welcome back for our 2nd edition of Pacific Dispatch. The world has certainly been upended during this pandemic, ...
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It was almost surreal when quarantine was ‘relaxed’ here on April 29th. French Polynesia’s COVID prevention measures were extremely effective: ...
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The world was changing rapidly while we were in Fakara-va. We arrived back on Tahiti to growing international news of ...
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Our time in Mo’orea drew to a close. We sailed back to Tahiti to prepare for our next expedition: we ...
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The feeling of sailing away from the boatyard was al-most euphoric. We were exhausted from the work but the excitement ...
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After a few weeks of celebrating the holidays, sailing, surfing, and snorkeling along the south coast of Tahiti, it was ...
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S/V Aldebaran sailed from her home port of Santa Barbara in March 2015 and pointed her bow south towards the ...
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We didn’t know what lay ahead when we landed in Pape’ete late on December 10th. We had agreed to care ...
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