they know the weather to her softly. I can’t remember the word for patterns so well. So, we how the fish were cooked – seared on the sailed to Bora Bora on a outside, cold in the middle. She had red wonderful broad reach, tuna again, and I had beef. I also conversed and arrived at 1:30pm. with our waiter for a while, mostly in Passe Teavanui, on the French, which was great practice. west side, is the only one On Friday, April 19 we headed to “teeny in/out of Bora Bora. You weeny” Maupiti. We slipped the moormust give a wide berth to ing at 7:20 am and were through the pass the SW corner, as the reef by 7:40. This was a very easy wide pass. sticks way out, and the Huge cruise ships go in and out every day. currents pull you in. I just wouldn’t want to be sharing the pass We decided to exwith them. We sailed on a course of 260° plore a bit and went to M, with 8-12 knot north winds. North is the famous Bora Bora NOT the usual trade wind! Our average Yacht Club (BBYC). We boat speed was 5.4 knots. muddled about trying to The Maupiti pass is on the south side find a clean mooring ball. of the island and we approached it with The Te Tiare Beach Resort, Huahine © Nancy G. Kaull Evidently, only in the U.S. extreme caution. Suddenly, we were in the do people utilize pick-up wands. The wind was light so we could passage with waves breaking on both sides and swells pushing easily pick it up with the boat hook. Sadly, it had been in the wa- us rapidly in. We anchored close to the town, but noted we ter a long time and hence was very scuzzy. Rather than setting the were just inside the channel, so we moved south and west and loop over our bow cleat, we ran a dock line through the loop, so anchored again on a sandy bottom. We did not see any boats this kept the barnacled float off our deck. coming or going to Maupiti.There were two catamarans way up Our dinner at the yacht club was delightful. Nancy wore in the shallows near the town. The entire passage from Bora Bora her new blue pareo and I loved how it looked on her. Her hair took 6 hours, and was excellent sailing on the very blue Pacific. was so soft from the rainwater wash and wavy from the humid Maupiti is without a doubt the most exotic, most remote, and ity. She looked lovely. She forgot her glasses, so I read the menu most unique place to which we have ever sailed. Everywhere one
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