Adventure #3 - Sailing the South Pacific

Welcome to Adventure #3: Sailing the South Pacific

Our adventure begins in Tahiti, where we’ll board Kanoa, a 49 ft yacht and begin our sail west to east towards New Caledonia. There are hundreds of islands between those two points and we don’t know exactly which islands we’ll visit. But suffice it to say that we’ll enjoy wherever the wind leads us.

We will land in New Caledonia at the end of October, when we’ll fly to New Zealand and explore the north island for 2 weeks. Our scheduled date to return to Colorado is November 11th.

Leg #1: Travel to Papeete, Tahiti via San Francisco. We landed in San Francisco with a 6 hour layover. Enjoyed a glass of wine where our German/Italian waitress entertained us with stories as she “waved her arms like a crazy woman” (her words). After rechecking our bags with French Bee airlines (because United has a 4 hour limit for a layover without having to claim and recheck bags….whatever), we hung out until our flight to Tahiti. 

Andy, our little Alpaca, joined us for the entire Inca Trail hike to Machu Picchu. We decided to bring him along to the South Pacific. He’ll add some commentary and fun along the way.

We’ll meet up with Xavier, the French captain and owner of Kanoa, and move onboard tomorrow morning. You can take a look at pictures and videos of Kanoa on its Facebook page 

If the hot link above doesn’t work, click the link below.

https://www.facebook.com/ODCMarineSailing15mXDM48/?wtsid=rdr_08WRvNxXkaIwZ0Pd7

Will post again soon. Keep the wind in your sails!