Current Position: 9 13.463’S 138 07.952’W (Hiva Oa) Local Timezone: UTC-9 1/2; HDG: N/A; COG: N/A; SOG: N/A; TWS: ?; TWD: ?; TWA: ?; Distance to Waypoint (Hiva Oa): at anchor; Total Miles Sailed: 3422 nm;
Comments: I walked to Atuona yesterday. It was not very far, maybe a mile and a half. However, my feet have not touched terra firma in the better part of four weeks, and the trek was brutal. There is a strange mussel on my hull, so I need to add scrapping them off to my list. Overnight, a 60’ catamaran anchored next to me, LIA The crew, a Mormon family, invited me to go to church services. Besides myself and the family I went with, everyone at the Easter service were locals. All were very friendly, especially Pifa, one of four police officers on the island (population 2000). He translated the southern Marquesan and French for me during the service. I asked him if his family was in attendance and he said, “We are all family. You know how it is. My ex-wife is my cousin. When we get married, we have to move out of our house.” After the service, he invited me for lunch. The experience was one-of-a-kind and I will report it in a separate post. Although I did not spend much time on the boat today, I did remove the sail pack in preparation for repairing the zipper and fixing the issue with the fraying reefing lines.
Comments: I walked to Atuona yesterday. It was not very far, maybe a mile and a half. However, my feet have not touched terra firma in the better part of four weeks, and the trek was brutal. There is a strange mussel on my hull, so I need to add scrapping them off to my list. Overnight, a 60’ catamaran anchored next to me, LIA The crew, a Mormon family, invited me to go to church services. Besides myself and the family I went with, everyone at the Easter service were locals. All were very friendly, especially Pifa, one of four police officers on the island (population 2000). He translated the southern Marquesan and French for me during the service. I asked him if his family was in attendance and he said, “We are all family. You know how it is. My ex-wife is my cousin. When we get married, we have to move out of our house.” After the service, he invited me for lunch. The experience was one-of-a-kind and I will report it in a separate post. Although I did not spend much time on the boat today, I did remove the sail pack in preparation for repairing the zipper and fixing the issue with the fraying reefing lines.