This morning we set sail again and this time our course on the chartplotter is set to Tahiti (620 nm as the Tropic Bird flies). We started out with wind still from the East, so for the first time on this trip East we’re tacking up and down which is quite frustrating. During the first 5 hours we sailed 31 nm to the NE, but… Continue reading »
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2016
09
Sep
2016
05
Sep
Touristic Rarotonga
Rarotonga is the main island of the Cook Islands. More than 10.000 people live on 67 km²–most of them in the capital Avarua and around the island on the narrow, coastal plane, the mountainous interior remains untouched. Today we took a bus (there’s a very convenient regular clockwise and anti-clockwise service), went around the island and stopped in a few places. The high, volcanic island… Continue reading »
2016
04
Sep
Article on the Pearls of the Gambier Islands in Ocean7 Magazine
Birgit Hackl, Christian Feldbauer: Die schwarzen Perlen der Südsee, OCEAN7 05 (Sept./Okt.) 2016, p. 44–48. download PDF (in German only)
2016
02
Sep
Arrived in Rarotonga
This rough and nasty leg of our passage ended quite pleasantly today when the wind finally shifted north and we reached Rarotonga at 3 in the afternoon with light winds. Putting a med mooring (bow anchor and stern line ashore) worked nicely, but the northerly waves make it into Avatiu Harbour, so we’ll spend another night in passage mode (mattress on the floor and sofa… Continue reading »