Archives for June 2007
Tuamotus, Rangiroa - Jun 2007
The sail from Ahé to Rangiroa was some 90 nm, we left Ahé in the afternoon and sailed slowly for half the way before the wind abandoned us completely! Being stubborn we waited for wind for a day, but then resigned ourselves to the use of diesel, so we got to Rangiroa after two days. […]
Tuamotus, Ahé - Jun 2007
We had reasonable winds from Nuku Hiva to Ahé and took the predicted five days for the journey.
We slowed our arrival at Ahé down so that we would have daylight for the approach to the only deep pass, which is on the north-west corner of the atoll. We kept a few miles off until after […]
The Tuamotu Atolls
Between the Marquesan high islands and the Society Islands with their fringing reefs, lie an area of ring-like atolls. These were notoriously dangerous to shipping in the past as they are so low-lying, but now with GPS it is easier to visit these islands.
An atoll is the remains of a long-gone volcano. The original volcano […]