Category Archives: French Polynesia

Firmly Etched in Wet Sand…

By B.J. | Published June 8, 2019

…below the high water mark. That’s how I generally describe our plans and how we make them. But sometimes it’s nice to actually KNOW what you will be doing, and it is also required to know when you are applying for things like visas and permits. The Original Plan. Sort Read On..

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Passage to the Marquesas – a Flashback for the Archives

By B.J. | Published October 1, 2017

This was originally run on Sailing Anarchy as a front page story in June 2, 2014, right after we completed this passage. I thought I’d cross-posted it to the blog for posterity, but it turns out I did not. So I’m going to post it here in it’s entirety in Read On..

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Makemo! Part one anyway…

By B.J. | Published February 3, 2015

And now it’s time for our first non-sequitur jump back to French Polynesia.  Makemo was the first stop in the Tuamotus, which we picked its downwind location relative to the other atolls we wanted to visit.  It was about a three day sail from Nuka Hiva, timed to arrive in Read On..

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The Fun Stuff in Nuka Hiva

By B.J. | Published October 14, 2014

Note: This is one post of several where the pictures we have are mostly locked away from us in the short term …now I can finally revisit them! Nuka Hiva wasn’t all about grinding out the school work!  We did actually go out and see and do some cool stuff. Read On..

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Milestones II

By B.J. | Published October 13, 2014

Two Years and 10,000 Miles We’ve recently passed a couple of major milestones in our trip, which of course we largely forget to commemorate ourselves so we didn’t make a big social media production out to them either. Two Years It was July 22, 2012 at 4:30 in the afternoon Read On..

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An Intro to the Tuamotus

By B.J. | Published July 30, 2014

For the last month we’ve been on one of those places that most people haven’t heard of, never mind find on a map. The Tuamotus…the Dangerous Archipelago as they were known for years. On one hand they are everyone’s dream Pacific Island Fantasy – remote atolls with crystal clear water, Read On..

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Milestones III

By B.J. | Published July 27, 2014

Two Years and 10,000 Miles We’ve recently passed a couple of major milestones in our trip, which of course we largely forget to commemorate ourselves so we didn’t make a big social media production out to them either. Two Years It was July 22, 2012 at 4:30 in the afternoon Read On..

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Nuka Hiva R & R. And a fair amount of S.

By B.J. | Published July 1, 2014

At the end, we spent a few weeks on Nuka Hiva.  In truth, we didn’t DO a lot but it was a lovely stay.  There will be one more Nuka Hiva post – but I warn you up front this is about the mundane bits of our first few weeks Read On..

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Rest, Recovery and Catching Up

By B.J. | Published June 4, 2014

We’re getting settled into the Marquesas now and are starting to get back into some semblance of a routine and more normal life. The kids haven’t been able to do a lot of school for some time, in Will’s case some of his courses he hasn’t been able to spend Read On..

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Marquesas Arrival!

By B.J. | Published May 31, 2014

We are here in the Marquesas after 16 days, 4 hours and 35 minutes, traveling 3,008 miles in total! Arrival time 2335 UTC on 5/31/14! PLEASE, PLEASELike and Share on the Evenstar Facebook page, not everyone checks the blog every day and we can’t get to Facebook yet. Thanks! More Read On..

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