LEADING UP TO THE FESTIVAL Wow, it has been a mad week for the crew of Spirit of Argo. At the start of the week I was recovering from a pneumothorax aboard s/V Clair de Luna off Tahiti, in the Society Islands. Then I had the madness of a flight […]
Yearly archives: 2019
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One of the greatest fears of cruisers is getting injured or ill far away from any medical help. And that is what happened during our visit to the Gambier Islands of French Polynesia. What do you do when someone aboard gets very sick when you are 1000nm from any medical […]
BOAT JOBS I would like to say that we have been on a diet of non-stop discovery and adventure, but then I would be lying. Somehow ‘on Spirit of Argo’ there is always something to fix or general maintenance to do. We have had a mixed bag of weather, so […]
WELCOME TO THE GAMBIER ISLANDS We made it, after a gentle 8 day sail, to the Gambier Archipelago. A cluster of four islands, and many motus, grouped around the much larger island of Mangareva. A maze of reefs creates pleasant protected lagoon anchorages at many of these islands and […]
TAHITI TO GAMBIER ISLANDS about 890 nm STATISTICS FOR DAY 8 Position: (can be cut and pasted into google earth): 23 09.045S 135 03.331W Distance traveled today(as the crow flies): 113 nm Distance left to travel (as the crow flies): 0 nm Number of fish caught: Fish 2: Spirit of […]
TAHITI TO GAMBIER ISLANDS about 890 nm STATISTICS FOR DAY 7 Position: (can be cut in pasted into google earth): 23 12.620S 137 01.256W Distance traveled today(as the crow flies): 126 nm Distance left to travel (as the crow flies): 113nm Number of fish caught: Zero so far. ‘Caught’ has […]