Tahiti Bound

Last night Brenda and I drove to Hector's house in Whangarei to return his car. (Thanks Hector!!!) This afternoon we rode on a bus back to Opua. Tonight we will have dinner at the Cruising Club and participate in the quiz night.

Tomorrow at 10 AM Brenda, Arnold, and I will present ourselves at the Customs office next to the marina office with our passports and other documents. After we get our clearance papers we will phone up the Road Runner pub to deliver the $400 worth of duty-free liquor. We hope to motor out of the pen at about noon and hoist sail for Ravavae in the Austral group of French Polynesia an hour or two later.

There is a High moving over the North Island and we expect to start off with SE winds of 15 knots.

We think that it will take about 24 sailing days to make Ravavae.

As before, we expect to send out short reports via satellite telephone every day.

Everyone keep well.