Galapagos to Marquesas: "I would sail 3000 miles..."
Tuesday 23 rd May, Hanavave, Fatu Hiva, Marquesas, French Polynesia. French Polynesia, woohoo!!! After 27 days, 3005 nautical miles (about 5,500km), one ripped spinnaker and one broken can opener we arrived in the South Pacific Polynesian paradise island of Fatu Hiva (population about 1200) last Thursday. We're anchored in the stunning Bay of Virgins surrounded by very tall, steep, lush, green, volcanic mountainsides dotted with precariously positioned goats. Apparently the Bay was originally known to sailors as the Baie de Verges (Bay of Penises) because of its suggestively shaped rock formations but when the missionaries arrived some clever clogs inserted a strategic "i" to change it to the more acceptable Baie de Vierges (Bay of Virgins). It hasn't made the rock formations look any more like virgins but this has been a fabulous place to make landfall after such a long trip, our second longest after the epic Covid-forced passage from St. Helena to Grenada in 202