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  • Cruising from Tonga to New Caledonia on Kamoké

    As soon as we get on s/v Kamoké, life changes radically. We are now on a french long-term navigator’s family, a ketsch of 15m long, Gulfstar 50, cruising the world for now four years.
    Pascal and Bénédicte work as environmentalists when they are not cruising the world. They are with their 9-years old and 10-years old childrens, Yann and Maèlle. They come from Britanny in France. Read more »

    Cruising from Tahiti to Tonga on Lady K

    On the 5th August, we are back on the Lady K in marina Taina. This time, six people are on board.
    Adrian is 25, Californian (USA), experienced race sailor and like very much the outdoor adventure like tramping in the bushes of the lost islands in the Marquesas. Read more »

    Hiking Tahiti

    From Makemo we have to get back to Tahiti and fulfill our agreement with the Lady K about going together to Tonga.
    Our plan was to find a boat to cruise with. Unfortunately none of the boats we met could take us there. Read more »

    Tuamotu – Makemo : Robinson’s life


    Wind, sea, sun, lagoon, coral, fishes, cocotrees. This is all about Makemo. One thousand people are living on the 70 x 1 kms long atoll, the whole part of the population stay in the village by the eastern pass.

    This is the perfect spot for playing Robinson’s life. We have a machete, a spear gun and a basic fishing gear completing our standard equipment for camping. We are set for the atoll’s lifestyle.

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    Sailing Tahiti – Makemo. Lady K


    2nd July, this is 1:30pm, we leave marina Taina on board of the 24m, luxurious superyacht Lady K, heading to Makemo, Tuamotu.

    Watching organization is set up by Ayla: 4 hours each, on a 2-personn team. I am 2 hours with Ayla and 2 hours with Toby. Nadège is 2 hours with Toby, 2 hours with Ayla. Just time to sleep a little and we go back on deck.

    Quite surprisingly, there’s no roof on the cockpit. Quite windy and cold up there! Read more »

    Tahiti


    It takes me one week to get out of Tago Mago. I really wonder why I had taken so much time after.

    Too much time has passed on this boat. Delphine gets her terrible bad mood once more, this time I don’t really know why, and I am not looking forward to understand to honest. Read more »

    Sailing Fakarava – Tahiti

    36 hours to cross the 300 miles between Tahiti and the paradise… oups, Fakarava. Good wind, 20 knots, backward, easy ride then for us.

    Anxiety of the captain becomes harsh and we, crew, feel quite bad in this context. I am really wishing to find another boat in Tahiti to leave Tago Mago as soon as possible, I can’t bear it anymore! Read more »

    Fakarava

    Nine days in Fakarava. That wasn’t much but still it was intense!
    There is a scuba dive center on the atoll, Te Ava Nui. It’s quite the specialty here. Local tourism is based on it anyway.
    Quite sensible to the idea of a world tour on a bike, Jean Christophe offers me a very good deal. To say the truth I could barely think about diving here otherwise… prices are so high in French Polynesia! Compared to South America, we are in a complete another world. But I have to make it, scuba diving used to be another passion in the previous time. Read more »

    Crossing Marquesas – Tuamotu

    We leave on the 13th of May Nuku Hiva Islands in the Marquesas, heading to the archipelago of the Tuamotu.
    For that time we are only four on board. We adapt the night watching, and this is the opportunity for the others to listen a little bit more about what I have to say about it at last. Read more »

    Marquesas Islands – A wild paradise

    I dedicate this text to the Marquise des Ecrins.

    Marquesas Islands are high islands contrasting with the lagoons more commonly met in the Tuamotu for example. ‘High’ means relatively recent volcanic activity and sharps landscapes chiseled by means of the Nature.

    First Tago Mago has reached Iva Oa Island. Next to 19 days off shore I feel quite weird to be back on land. I feel it moving strangely. It is not sea sickness anymore but shore sickness! And Woooo! Walking for more than 10 meters in the same directions is sooo fantastic! Read more »