Day 1 Bora Bora-Vuda marina, Fiji

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I arrived into Papetee, Tahiti from Auckland on Wednesday morning around 02:30 after a flight from Auckland where I left at 21:30 on Wednesday night!  So arriving earlier on the day I actually left! Always a strange experience crossing the date line and going back a day!    
I had a night in a "dated" hotel at the airport before my late morning flight to Bora Bora.
Interestingly the airport at Bora Bora is on it's own island so you have to get the airline's ferry. 
Got picked up and taken to the boat which is a Nordhavn 76 trawler launch.  A beast of a globe trotting boat more like a mini ship with all it's systems onboard including 2 large water makers and 3 generators.  Talk about redundancy!
So the day was spent being shown around the boat making sure I know how systems work and where all the important items are.  Then it was on to the paperwork for clearing out of here and into Fiji.  Clearing out was pretty easy, I just set up an account online with the French Polynesian portal and a quick visit to the Gendamarie to collect our clearing out certificate and get our passports stamped.
Back to the boat then the owners were taken to the aiport by the crew they employ, all of these people are Estonians so I have been learning a lot of interesting information about Estonia that I had no idea.
When the boys got back the tender was hoisted aboard, the flopper stoppers where hauled in, everything squared away and off we go.  

We left around 16:00 straight out the passage and headed for Fiji. 










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