Tuesday, May 21 to Sunday, May 26, 2013
We spent most of these last days in Tahiti fixing things on the boat and provisioning. We had to buy new batteries here in Tahiti because the old ones weren't holding a charge at all. It ended up costing $2,000 for two batteries!! Tahiti is not a cheap place to buy boat parts...
I met a younger couple from Vancouver and another Swedish couple who were in their early 30's. They both had bought boats in Latin America and decided to venture off into the Pacific. They met each other in the Tuomotus and have been friends since. I went out with them on Friday to Les Trois Brasseurs (a French Brewpub here, which they also have in Montreal) and then to some club after. There was some little Tahitian girl doing math with her friends on a chalkboard there, so I went up and corrected some of her work and ended up doing a small lesson on rational and irrational numbers. That sure is an unusual new bar story for my repertoire.
We went for a dinghy ride to the fuel dock (at Marina Taina) to scope it out and see how to approach it in the sailboat before leaving tomorrow. We had some crazy Tahitians who would paddle up to our boat, catch up, and then paddle along in our wake. These guys were paddling at like 7 or 8 knots and stayed there for an hour or so. Unbelievable upper-body strength.
There were some unbelievable mega-yachts at the marina. We got to see the huge 5-spreader sailboat from Fatu Hiva up close. It was called Erica VII. I have noticed that we have been running into the same boats and people a lot on this passage on different islands.
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