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Continue reading →: Sailing to the Tuamotus
Raroia 16°01′S 142°26′W Time to leave the Marquesas and sail onto the Tuamotus. We have guests coming and need to be in the area. The sail was okay, not great, not wonderful, just okay. First day was slow, second night was full of squalls. FULL. Like three or four an hour…
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Continue reading →: Fatu Hiva & Tahuata, Marquesas10°29′00″S 138°38′00″W After Hiva Oa, we were ready to get out of a populated working anchorage and into waters where we can play, swim, and catch some “chill” and the island of Tahuata did not disappoint. The best fun in Hanamoenoa bay on Tahuata was the raft-ups. Everyone grabbed a tasty…
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Continue reading →: Seek-y the TikiHiva Oa, Marquesas9º48’11″S / 139º2’23″W We picked up the truck and headed off to our first hike to see a tiki, a large Polynesian carving, out of Stone or Wood, of a human figure. Tiki is also the Maori word for the First Man. The first tiki we sought was…
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Continue reading →: Hiva Oa, Marquesas
9º48’11″S / 139º2’23″W Fairbanks is 64º50’37” N / 147º43’23” W, so physically, we are very close in longitude (west-east) and 5,037 miles south. So close to home, but so very, very far away. The eastern-most bay for checking into the country is Baie Ta’aoa adjacent to the town of Atouna…
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Continue reading →: Pacific Crossing – Day 20, 21, 22 & 23Atouna, Hiva Oa, Marquesas, French Polynesia Our Raymarine chart plotter informs us how many nautical miles (nm) are left to go to our set terminating waypoint. Mark calculated how many nautical miles we sailed every 24 hour period recording location, average wind speed, and average sea state. From the distance…
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Continue reading →: Follow me through a dayPassage from Galapagos, Ecuador to Hiva Oa, Marquesas, French Polynesia 8º52.5′ S/ 131º16.6′ W Day 19 and I figured it was time for me to show you what I do in a typical day. Mark is very good at taking video of what he has done over the course of…
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Continue reading →: Pacific Crossing – Day 15 -main sail patching
Due to mechanical failure on the hardware that attaches our main sail to the mast, too much tug was placed on the sailcloth and eventually it started to give way. Mark noticed it on the take down of the main in the morning when we do our sail changes to…
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Continue reading →: Pacific Crossing – Day 11, 12, 13, & 14
Champagne sailing. Spinnaker is up, seas are down, wind is balanced and sailing is divine. Really can’t ask for better weather these days. Folks, the center of that picture above is where we are heading. Right to the center of the South Pacific. Sailing around the full moon is an…
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Continue reading →: Pacific Crossing – Day 8, 9 & 10
Week 1 is DONE! 991 nautical miles (nm) sailed and motored. We motored for the first day and half to get into the tradewinds and then turned on the engine every once in a while during sail changes or a boost on slow nights. Our main issue was the disagreement…
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I’m Krista
Sailing the seven seas since 2020. As an avid hiker, biker, runner, knitter and stained glass artist, I like to do hard things. After learning that 0.01% of the world’s population will run a marathon, I ran the world’s seventh most difficult marathon, the Equinox Marathon in Fairbanks, Alaska. More people will summit Mount Everest than will circumnavigate by sailboat. I plan on being one of that small group.
Sailing Bear and Seal 