Sugar Shack has left the Bora Bora, next stop Fiji

Off to the wild blue and beyond. After 3 great years, time has come to move on. Well we “could” stay but we would have to import the boat into French Polynesia so next stop Fiji.

The weather is going to be light at least at the beginning and wants us to go some 300 miles out of our way to keep the wind flowing. Started down that road, but quickly wanted to tick off some of those 1600+ miles it will take to arrive in Fiji. That is without the extra 300 the weather models suggested we take.

First night is in the books, it was a nice and calm-ish run til the winds got really light and the swell/waves made the sails make a lot of racket. No worries in the morning day light we will fix that and switch out the sails for more appropriate for downwind action. Only a couple of squalls in the night gave us good fun to pick up boat speed in the right direction and only 1 of the 4 actually drizzled on the boat.

Had a nice BBQ chicken enchiladas and rice that would give “Rockin Ruthann’s” from Maudies in Austin a run for the money.

Started with 1664 miles to go as the crow flies, almost like a Flight from Austin to Chicago, only the flight takes 3 hours, it will take us about 2 weeks.

Bora Bora the quintessential exotic location

Our last night in French Polynesia would be remiss without yet one more trip to Bora Bora on the way out. Since the weather isn’t really matching what the forecasts are calling for we may postpone the departure yet again.

If not we will be under way at sea for about 2 weeks, nothing but water and wind and whatever the weather brings. Here is hoping its nice weather.

We have a nice sail over today, and were rewarded again with beautiful clear waters and a view of the Bora Bora mountain.

I think Bora Bora is one of those quintessential places we have all built up in our minds and the super exotic. Now that we have that covered, Pago Pago next? Or perhaps Bali? We will be sailing past Pago Pago on the way to Fiji, but with the Covid stuff, not 100% we are allowed to stop. One more thing to check while we have internet.

Live Updates While Under Way

We will be doing live updates on our blog while on our passage from French Polynesia to Fiji. So, I have suspended the regularly scheduled programming (blog posts) to prevent confusion.

We will resume our standard blog posts once we arrive in Fiji, but please keep in mind that they will be 10-12 weeks behind when these events actually occurred. Meaning a post in July might say “Toodles Tahiti” when we actually left Tahiti in early May.

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We are well prepared for this 2 week passage. All of our safety gear is out and accessible (medical bag, ditch bag, jack lines, EPIRBS, PFDs, and life raft), foul weather gear is out, things are stowed and secure, gingerbread cookies have been made (prevents sea sickness) and weather has been checked, double checked and triple checked.

Several other boats are heading in the same direction, but not all are ready to go now. It would have been nice to depart with a few others as there is always safety in numbers. But, we have our good friend Donald who will be our land based weather guru and we have 4 weather sources onboard so we should be fine.

This will be our longest passage with just the two of us on board. Our previous passage was 11 days with just Matt and I. But our overall longest passage was 18 days with 2 additional people on board. 3-hour shifts at night – We’ve got this!

Cheers

Christine and Matt