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Tahanea Photo Log

May 30 – June 4, 2014

This was our last atoll in the Tuamotus, and sadly, I didn’t snap very many photos. The highlight of our visit isn’t even captured… we met 3 other kid boats!

Depart Makemo May 30 at 1630 – Arrive Tahanea SE anchorage at 1134

Logbook – May 30, 2014 (Makemo to Tahanea)

Passage Log Highlights

  • 1630 Engines on
  • Depart Makemo
  • 1700 Through the pass
  • 1708 Both engines off genoa only (3 reefs)

Daily Notes

  • Alex sick – slept all morning. Vomiting in the night. Fever. Sore throat. 1550 – 102.6 deg fever. White tonsils.
  • Anchor stuck – Tim had to dive. Brenden stepped it up (Alex sick).

Logbook – May 31, 2014 (Makemo to Tahanea)

Passage Log Highlights

  • 0528 Engines on. At the pass. Too dar.
  • 0630 Arrive anchorage just inside pass
  • 0848 Engines on
  • Depart
  • 1134 Arrive SE anchorage

Daily Notes

We anchored just inside the pass for a couple of hours until the sun was high enough to transit down to the SE anchorage
The pass at Tahanea
We anchored for on the SE side of the atoll for maximum wind protection
Brenden and Kyle designed and built a sail to use as a windsurfer atop our paddle board. It only goes downwind, so Kyle is following Brenden in the dinghy to bring him back.

Logbook – June 1, 2014 (Tahanea SE Anchorage)

Daily Notes

  • Lost the rigid paddle board. Tim & Alex – dinghy ride from hell trying to find it.
  • T/Steve – took all the kids to shore to build forts
Exodus is the mini-me in the background

Email to friends and family dated June 1, 2014

Subject: Tahanea

We made it to Tahanea, another atoll in the Tuamotus, just at sunrise yesterday morning. It is only 48 miles from Makemo, so we had an intentionally long slow night with very little sail up so we wouldn’t arrive too early. Tahanea is an uninhabited atoll, and it is actually a national park to protect a type of rare bird, so we thought this would be the most remote of the atolls so far. But there are a lot of other cruisers here… 6 others in the anchorage with us, and 3 of them kid boats. We had a bonfire on the beach last night and met the other kid boats, all catamarans, all of which cruised the Caribbean and came through the Panama canal. There are 6 kids ranging in age from 6 to 12, 5 girls and 1 boy, so our 4 boys (Exodus and Lady Carolina) instantly evened the girl/boy score. I’m going to give the kids the day off from school, so they can play with their new friends.
Love and miss you all,
-D.

Logbook – June 2, 2014 (Tahanea SE Anchorage)

Daily Notes

  • “4-6pm” happy hour on Exodus. Kyle cooked pasta on LC for all the kids
  • Isablea net – 8173 – 8am Tahiti time

Logbook – June 3, 2014 (Tahanea SE Anchorage to Tahanea Pass)

Passage Log Highlights

  • 0819 Engines on
  • 0825 Depart
  • 1049 Arrive @ pass anchorage

Daily Notes

  • T/Steve/A/K – ride w/ locals (Phillip, Chris, and “The Boss”) to go find paddleboard. Unsuccessful.
  • Steve is hooked on minecraft
Depart Tahanea SE Anchorage June 3 at 0825 – Arrive Tahanea Pass Anchorage at 1049
We anchored near the pass for an easier departure to Papeete, Tahiti the next day

One reply on “Tahanea Photo Log”

[…] Tahanea is an uninhabited atoll, and it is a national park to protect a type of rare bird, so we thought this would be the most remote of the atolls so far, but we were wrong.  After the slow overnight sail to Tahanea, we still arrived too early, but we decided to enter the pass even before the light was ideal.  This was our first time going through a pass with the current against us, and the max we saw was about 3 kts.  We dropped anchor in a spot near the pass to wait for more direct sunlight before navigating across the lagoon, and while we were relaxing there, we noticed a boat on AIS called Field Trip.  We were pretty sure they had kids, since if we were remembering correctly, we had heard of them from a boat called Tulu that we had met in Nuku Hiva.  So, of course when Field Trip got a radio call from someone else inside the lagoon, Tim had to follow along and listen.  We are once again stalking other kid boats on the radio.  We gleaned that yes, Field Trip is a kid boat, and bonus, they were with two other kid boats across the lagoon.  Tim came out of stalker mode and actually hailed them on the radio (or perhaps he just broke into the conversation on which we were eavesdropping) and talked to them and let them know there were going to be two more kid boats joining them.  […]

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