Shiplogs: Marquesas Islands magyarul

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19. day - 29/07/2007 -

We still collected some lemon in the morning before leaving. Then we sailed to another smaller village. A big boat arrived from Tahiti with some tourists on board. The locals prepared with some dance and music. We missed it but it was short and we could see the market after it. Tikis and carved tools were sold which we found a bit expensive. The church was also dressed up in flowers and the olders returned for praying into it. The inhabitants are Catholic.
There is a small route behind the church, which goes up on the hill to a cross and a Christ sculpture. We climbed up on the hill and we had very nice view from here. We collected some bananas on the way when we returned to board..


20. day - 30/07/2007 -

We paddled early morning to the small shop of the village, but they had not got bred only once a week. We decided to sail back to the bigger village, Vaitahu. When we arrived there were not any bred at all too, but at least we could buy some frozen chicken for very cheap. The bred delivery did not succeded this time, so we just said good-bye to Hafskip and Dingo. We were heading to Tuamotu that is another group of islands of French Polynesia.

From the 6 inhabitant island of Marquesas we visited 3. The next group of islands contain a bit more choice (there are around 78 islands at Tuamotu)..

We are sailing again in the Pacific Ocean towards the next group of islands Tuamotu of French Polynesia. The boat is filled now with the local grapefruit and with some frozen chicken. We have to sail around 500 miles southwest to the atolls of Tuamotu. There are around 78 islands, which are all diferent sized and shaped atolls. From birds eyes view the area looks fantastic. But we have to be careful by getting close to these atolls. The coralls can be dangerous and even recent years carelessly navigated
yachts had some accidents here. The area is sometimes called Dangerous Archipelago.
The maps are not very reliable and sometimes the corall-rings are hidden by the ocean. That was the reason we recalibrated our radar at Marquesas. There is a big a chance of using it. The radar can show the breaking waves above the coralls. Another threat is the unpredictable current around the atolls. Before-GPS-time the sailors avoided Tuamotu, but still today it can be dangerous sailing in and out the atolls. The maps are mainly still today from the before-GPS-time so the current exact positions
are not enough to navigate.
On the first day of sailing we left behind 100-mile in a pleasant sunlit, under the blue sky, in a good trade wind and flat sea. It is full moon now, which makes the navigation and visibility easier in the night also among the islands.
We have again a banch of bananas, but it is still very green.


21. day - 31/07/2007 -

The yesterday wind remained for today. We had Hungarian chicken soup and local bred-fruit (fried and baked too as we tested, which is better) for lunch.

In the evening some thick black clouds gathered in the blue sky but it was clear right just above us. But our luck has gone when the sun went down. The clouds closed their ring around us, and the 20 knots of trade wind turned from the south (5 knots was predicted by the weather forecast). The barometer started to fall. We reefed then we started to beat the wind and the growing waves..

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