When we left French Polynesia we had anywhere between a single overnight sail to thirteen-plus nights. There is 1300 miles between us and our next major destination of Tonga. How long we would be at sea was fully dependent on the weather from day to day. No forecast could be trusted 13 days out, so we planned our route to...
Forty miles west of the last largely populated islands in French Polynesia is a small volcanic island surrounded by an atoll-like ring of land protecting the inner waters from the sea outside. This little island is known as Maupiti, and is home to roughly 1200 people. To enter said protected waters one must thread the needle between breaking waves and...
By this time our French Polynesia visas were nearing their end. From the day we arrived in French Poly we had only 90 days to complete our travels and get to a place we can officially check out of the country and promptly leave. We could have checked out on Tahiti, but then we would have had to sail right...