See performance clearly superior to those of the lead-acid batteries, the lithium battery (LiFePo4) seems the best choice for the boat service batteries. But they are very sensitive to certain parameters that must master before embarking on this adventure.
Ua-Huka berries are known for being very rollers... but the luck is with us and can spend a quiet week to discover the landscapes and museums of this welcoming island...
It all started in April 2015 during a walk on the banks of the new marina in Papeete.
We spend two weeks of "vacation" in the Bay of Anaho where we sympathize with Laura and Pakau living there. Pakau offers to take hunting to the goat Philippe...
After some shopping and buying gas at Taiohae we lose no time to return to the north side of Nuku Hiva with its protected bays and to find Marina and Germain...
We leave to the discovery of Nuku Hiva with several stops around the island... most of the bays West and North are wild, rarely inhabited but sometimes in the heart of the Valley a Fare popped up in the middle of coconut trees.
After 4000 miles driven in 23 days we land at the marquee on the island of Nuku Hiva. We find our friends with whom we had spent good times three years ago...
Coming from the unibody I had kept the habit of putting, on Tao, a hoist used boom by wind. It was struck between the central cleat and a bridge to the 2/3 the back of the boom... until the day when the cleat pulled out... and a buddy has folded its boom with the same technical!!! As we learn…
Since 2 days the current is with us, the wind had subsided, but thanks to the gennaker our speed is maintained between 8 and 9 nodes. The crazy-gannets and the flying fish are our companions of sea, These latest hunts by other predators under water, delight gannets who catch them in flight and…