" A LADY TRIP " Sailing around the World and avoiding Recessions, Depressions, religious scandels, bank scandels, government scandels, and Volca
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Thu 22 Apr 2010 17:43
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WEDNESDAY 21st APRIL
2010 Location " TIKEHAU
" The Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia, South
Pacific.
You know something, When you look at all the crap
going on at home and around the world, Its clear that the timing of this trip
was
just about perfect, but we cannot claim
responsability for that wonderfull foresight, It just happened that
way.
07.00hrs, Ronja, Chow, and some of the other yachts
departed for Tahiti,
We still had some things to do ashore, and when
these we complete , we hauled the anchor and set sail out through the Pass
and around the northern end of the Island, and
headed to " Tikehau " an adjoining atoll.to the west..
Wind ............................... 20 knots
ESE
Weather..............................Sunny and
cloudy, with very heavy showers ,
Distance to our next place.....45miles
Sea state
...........................Moderate
SOG....................................7.5
knots
We read the emails on route, ( the skipper still
not feeling great, and ears still blocked)
We had a great collection, from
.......... Leah, Sarah, Brendan Stevenson, Margaret How, Ed Wildgoose, Marrion
in Germany, Ann in Sweedan,
Michelle in Galway, Arnaud, the french man in cork
who looks after our boat IT.
We had a lovely sail and arrived at the Pass to "
Tikehau " around 16.15 hrs
It took us another 1 hour to sail across the lagoon
to the Pearl Beach Hotel, where we dropped anchor jus as it was getting
dark.
Scaaaaaary stuff , sailing in the lagoons with none
of our electronic charts working , so we have to navigate by sight,
this means you have to have plenty of sunlight to
see the colours in the water, which will indicate the dept and the coral
outcrops.
We have hung the rib up on coral reefs plenty of
times in the last week , mostly at night time, and luckily , no
damage.
18.30hrs Aileen did the dinner, which
included Hamburgers, sausages, fried potatoes, beans, carrots, and tasted very
good.
An early night, all this sunshine has us wrecked.
not to mind the diving.
Thats it for today.
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde ( Skipper )
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