Water up

After getting the rudder put back in there was a lot of work to get the boat back in sailing shape. We're heading to Huahine in the next couple of days, which means getting water at the dock since it's potable and free. There's a great spot that sailboats can pull up to that's out of the way and relatively easy to get in and out of. The only problem is that there are a couple of tenders parked there right now for big megayachts. These tenders are over 40 feet--which is how long Kyanos is! Basically their dinghies are bigger than our boat. Ben scoped out different spots we could pull into and picked out a space that Kyanos would fit. Funny thing about this space--it's in between some megayacht sailboats.
Pulling in there was entertaining for everyone--and maybe a little stressful for Ben. The big yachts were stern-to the dock and we pulled in real close to an all black sailboat, turned on a dime and ended up with our port side next to the dock perfectly between the big sailboats. The crews of those boats were on deck watching our every move to make sure we didn't get too close but we didn't even get near it.

Ben pulled up to the dock so smoothly that I just stepped off Kyanos onto the dock and tied her up (trying not to laugh at the fact that we had to step UP to the dock and the megayachts need ladders down to the dock). We quickly filled our water tanks while keeping a watch out for dock security since we weren't sure if they'd get mad at us for filling up there. We even waved a few gendarmes (French police) that were walking by boarding the mega yachts. When the marina security did walk by he laughed and gave us a thumbs up.

After filling up the tanks we gave Kyanos a good freshwater wash down. I'm pretty sure the megayacht crews were jealous that we did all this in less than an hour.

When we pushed off from the dock (we would have sailed but the wind was right on the nose) the crew on the all-black sailboat were really friendly, waving and yelling "Hope to see you around!" We got really lucky they didn't complain about the teeny little boat from the wrong side of the dock. It was actually really fun to mess with them a little.

Here's Kyanos next to her big sisters. Can you find her?