Fell Behind

Well I fell a little behind on writing posts. It's pretty easy to sum up the past ten days though:

We sailed to Raiatea in great winds--again I had to hold Ben back and tell him it wasn't a race, we didn't need the spinnaker, we were fine doing 7.5 knots for such a short hop...

Raiatea has amazing archeological sites to wander around and see, so we did that and some hiking.
We sailed to Taha'a in great winds--again I had to hold Ben back and tell him it wasn't a race, we didn't need the huge genoa up, we were doing find passing Dragonsbane and Osprey...

In Taha'a the winds picked up so we stayed close to the boat but did manage to have a lot of potlucks and celebrate Mark's birthday (he's on Compass Rosey).

While making the buns for his birthday dinner (we had quinoa burgers) the stove went out and it's impossible to light with a dinky little lighter when it's hot. So I pulled out the propane torch and lit 'er up no problem.

The next night we had a happy hour on Osprey and for the mixers I cracked open a coconut to mix with juice. It's really easy to open those suckers if you use a cordless drill. I was immensely entertained to use power tools for food prep.

After nearly a week of waiting out really gusty winds (we saw gusts up to 50 knots!) we sailed to Bora Bora. It was great sailing and again I convinced Ben to run with less sail. His favorite sail might be the spinnaker but I'm in love with our little miter cut jib. It works really well in high winds with little to no flogging.

We're in Bora Bora getting ready to head to Tonga. We might go as early as Monday, but probably Tuesday the 30th. Hopefully we can find the time to do some hiking and movement before being cooped up on the boat for 1000 miles.

Photo courtesy of Brian on Osprey. Kyanos is on the left, Dragonsbane on the right. We have our awesome little miter cut jib up and we're kind of speeding past these guys.