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Dance Classes and Goodbye Rangiroa

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:June 11, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Normand/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

On our last day in Rangiroa Kirsten, Alyssa and Teyauna were invited to a Relief Society Tahitian Song and Dance rehearsal. The ladies of this local organization are preparing a…

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Dis-masted Sailors, Dogs, Copra and an Island Feast

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:June 9, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Normand/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

Six years ago our family came to visit Rangiroa and we all fell in love with this island paradise. Part of the reason we fell in love with this island…

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Playing in the Lagoon – Young Men’s Activity

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:June 9, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Normand/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

Jaeden, Dailin and Orin took off in the morning for an activity with 5 other young boys on the island that a local church leader had organized. They were getting…

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Fueling up and Swimming with Dolphins

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:June 7, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Normand/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

The only gas station in all of Rangiroa is located 12 kilometres away and taking a $20 taxi ride to get $21 of fuel seemed rather pointless. We had been…

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Snorkeling at the Rangiroa “Aquarium”

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:June 4, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Normand/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

 went snorkeling twice today at what the locals call “The Aquarium”. After hearing the stories that Orin, Eli and Dailin shared, Kirsten and Jaeden were also anxious to go. It…

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Friendly Village of Tiputa, Rangiroa

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:June 4, 2013
  • Post category:2013/French Polynesia/Normand/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

Jaeden and I woke up early to check out the conditions at Tiputa Pass. Since arriving in Rangiroa we had wanted to return to Tiputa where we had spent a…

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Black Pearls and Dolphins

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:June 3, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Normand/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

This morning we went with a friend that we had met at church the day before on one of his company's free shuttles to go to the Gauguin Pearl Farm.…

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Arriving at Ahe (next day)

  • Post author:Kirsten
  • Post published:May 31, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Kirsten

The next morning we awoke and finished our family studies and quick chores first off. Before long we heard another boat of voices outside on the water. A few new…

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Missing Battens in the Mainsail

  • Post author:Norm
  • Post published:May 31, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Normand/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

The morning we arrived in Ahe at the beginning of this week we noticed the batten (flexible pipe to keep the mainsail rigid) just below the first reef line (1/3…

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Arriving at Ahe

  • Post author:Kirsten
  • Post published:May 30, 2013
  • Post category:2013/Kirsten/Sailing/Schafer Family/Schafer Family Trips/Schafer South Pacific Sailing/South Pacific

Saying goodbye to our dear friends in Nuku Hiva was harder than we anticipated. I knew this part of our journey would be difficult but somehow I did not expect…

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