I was very happy to make the short sail to Moorea, because I had heard so much nice about the place. It delivered in full. We did one day of snorkling, where we started at 8 am, diving with 8 - 10 feet long lemon sharks. They were big, but minded their...

After what seemed like way too short a time in the Tuamotos, we sailed to Tahiti. We went there to celebrate Jacob's 30th birthday and to do a crew change. When I say Tahiti most people think of honeymoons. When I think of Tahiti, I think of one long...

This trip gets better and better and I think I have a new name for paradise: Tuamotos, because they are the same thing. Though arriving in the Tuamotos was like coming to Heaven (if you chose to believe in such things), we were close to having a catastrophic...