The Lift on the trailer was modified and the broken cylinders was fixed temporarily to splash two sailing vessels on Monday morning. My launch was smooth at a raising tide. Alfred pushed the trailer and Sarantium into the water and Tony removed webbing and I floated off the cradles. Tony then spun Sarantium around with his bare hands. I put the transmission in forward gear and motored out to anchor…
Two days later, I am preparing to leave Apataki! I have been weather routing and timing it with slack tides both for here and for entering Fakarava. It will be tough to make the slack on a day sail as I a will be on an upwind sail for part of the route. Therefore, a night sail is the best in regards to timing the passes. Plan for now is that I leave on the 10 am slack from Apataki and sail the 68 Nmiles to Fakarava and enter first light into Fakarava the following morning. All in all, it looks like a nice sail in 10-14 knots of East Wind. I am excited to to sail again!
Sailaway Sarantium 