Boat Jobs and Moving On
Spent yesterday doing a few boat jobs, going for a walk on shore (first time on land in 5 days) and generally whiling away Sunday in paradise. Barry asked if I could give him a hand adjusting his valves in the afternoon so before I helped him, I decided to check ours. Good thing too. Only one valve was a bit out but the alternator belt was frayed and almost ready to let go. It's such a good idea to check you engine pretty much every day you run it!!
We are planning on moving over to Opunohu Bay today for a couple of nights before heading off to Huahine.
We weighed anchor around 11:00 and headed out to move a whole five miles or so south. In order to do that we had to put the outboard on the rail, put the dinghy on deck, secure the outboard gas can on deck, out everything away in the boat and make sure nothing could go flying. We got out of the reef entrance and immediately pulled out part of the genoa and sailed on a deep reach, headsail only, to Opunohu. We cooked along at a comfortable 6 knots or so. The wind stayed with us so we sailed in through the pass and most of the way into the bay. Once again, we decided to come to the head of the bay rather than stay out near the outside, much calmer and much more peaceful here. The scenery is even more spectacular than Cooks Bay. No real development in the bottom of the bay, so nice and dark at night.
Monday was strange though in other ways. First, we found out that our Kiwi friends Paul and Gina off Solace were racing off to Raitea to put their boat on the hard and fly back to NZ. Paul has a history of electrical arrhythmia and has been feeling very unwell for the past couple of weeks. We're hoping that everything turns out all right. There is another boat in Raitea that will help them decommission Solace so Gina won't have to do it all herself. Then, after we got to Opunohu, we got a call from Cats Paw IV, who were supposed to be following us over here. They got outside the reef in Cooks Bay and their engine died so they pulled up a bit of sail and headed off for Huahine, about 80 miles away. Basically a bummer Monday.
We are planning on moving over to Opunohu Bay today for a couple of nights before heading off to Huahine.
We weighed anchor around 11:00 and headed out to move a whole five miles or so south. In order to do that we had to put the outboard on the rail, put the dinghy on deck, secure the outboard gas can on deck, out everything away in the boat and make sure nothing could go flying. We got out of the reef entrance and immediately pulled out part of the genoa and sailed on a deep reach, headsail only, to Opunohu. We cooked along at a comfortable 6 knots or so. The wind stayed with us so we sailed in through the pass and most of the way into the bay. Once again, we decided to come to the head of the bay rather than stay out near the outside, much calmer and much more peaceful here. The scenery is even more spectacular than Cooks Bay. No real development in the bottom of the bay, so nice and dark at night.
Monday was strange though in other ways. First, we found out that our Kiwi friends Paul and Gina off Solace were racing off to Raitea to put their boat on the hard and fly back to NZ. Paul has a history of electrical arrhythmia and has been feeling very unwell for the past couple of weeks. We're hoping that everything turns out all right. There is another boat in Raitea that will help them decommission Solace so Gina won't have to do it all herself. Then, after we got to Opunohu, we got a call from Cats Paw IV, who were supposed to be following us over here. They got outside the reef in Cooks Bay and their engine died so they pulled up a bit of sail and headed off for Huahine, about 80 miles away. Basically a bummer Monday.
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