We motored over to here from Fare and grabbed a mooring for 3 nights before the World ARC boats arrived.
Here is the Yacht Club in Bora Bora, complete with free wifi, slow but still, toilets, showers, food and drink. All the necessities of life in fact.
Yesterday we took a motor tour of the island, a 30 km road around the coast built by the US army in 1942/3 and recently refinished by the French. There is still at least 1 bunker and 1 8inch cannon visible, but well overgrown.
Also we are eliminating some on board cockroaches that appeared since our arrival. Lots of cleaning of hidden area followed by a heavy spray with Moretein to discourage any more.
This morning I dived under the boat and replaced 2 of the 3 anodes, the other one is not available here. Garry ably assisting me and sharing the tank full of Frankston air! Finally had a look at the hull cleaning done in Papeete, and I’m not impressed. The propeller and shaft were not touched and I had to clean a section of the shaft to fit the anode. I’ll have a word with the agent tomorrow when I see him.
Tomorrow we’re planning to go to the fuel dock and fill up the diesel tanks, the outboard petrol container and the water tanks again, flush out the holding tanks and then depart in early afternoon for Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. Should take about 4 days as it’s almost 600 miles. I’ll do another blog from there.
All is well on BlueFlyer.
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