The north pass at Raiatea. Again, the breakers if you stray outside the channel

Landfall Bora Bora

Coming in the pass at Bora Bora

Left Raiatea this morning. Took the inside passage up inside the reef all the way North through Tahaa doing 6 knots under sail in 15-20 knots wind. Beautiful sail. Went through the pass on the NW side into the ocean and did the 14 or so mile passage to Bora Bora. We are now moored inside the reef at Bora Bora. We had a wonderful evening starting with happy hour cocktails with friends we’ve met along the way including Mike and Barbara from Astarte, Craig and Bruce from Gato Go, Bruce and Marcellle from Adventure Bound and Robbie and Bev from Mersoliel and then Ann and I had a great dinner at the Mai Kai. Charisma is moored all of 100 feet from the restaurant’s dock. Nice. We finished the evening with after dinner drinks at Gato Go with Craig and Bruce who are moored right behind us.

We’re looking forward to the promised let up of wind tomorrow, but in any case, we’ll go ashore and do some exploring. It’s late, so that’s it for now.