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Ep. 93 – Running Errands and Exploring Tahiti
We finish our car tour of Tahiti stopping in the south at Teahupo'o and fording a swelling river. This is the future site of the 2024 olympic surfing and is well known for its' monster waves. We explore downtown Papeete and run a few boat errands before we...
Ep. 92 – Arrival to Tahiti
We finally make it to TAHITI!!! It's been a life long dream to make it here, and what a way to get there. We Scuba dive and rent a car for a couple days to drive around the island and check out a few places before the country goes back on lockdown 💥Hu...
Ep. 91 – Pearl Farms and Passage to Tahiti
We head to the only pearl farm (Havaiki Lodge) on the atoll that still allowing tours during COVID, although it was all in French so we didn't understand anything. We then prep to leave Fakarava and sail off to Tahiti crossing the lagoon entrance exactly a...
Coral Spawning, Kiteboarding, Frenzied Sharks
October and November have been a spawning extravaganza out here in French Polynesia! And with that sharks come to feed. While kiteboarding, Nicole has to weave through a frenzy of sharks just to try and get back to the boat. And Ryan and Nicole experien...
TRAILER: Cruising the Pacific
TRAILER: CRUISING THE PACIFIC from Sailing Quarterly Video Magazine. Hosted by Gary Jobson. Sail back in time to the late 1980s for five Pacific cruises. Watch the full video and explore individual episodes interactively. *********************************...
Reef Safe Sunscreen Showdown
Not clickbait... Nicole and Kahaia get wet and wild testing different brands of sunscreen that are safe for coral reefs. We plant some coral with the Coral Gardeners, an incredible conservation group based out of Moorea (Tahiti) and we dive deep into the...
TRAILER – Once Upon an Island: Tahiti and the Leeward Islands
TRAILER... A film by Antoine Muraccioli, French celebrity and world sailor. Full film: 58:22 (French and Italian versions included.) Antoine takes you on a intimate tour of Tahiti and the Leeward Islands - the iconic South Pacific Polynesian destination fo...
EXTRA – Once Upon an Island: Bora-Bora
From the Bora-Bora chapter of Once Upon an Island: Tahiti and the Leewards. French celebrity and sailing circumnavigator, Antoine presents spectacular aerial views of the black pearl of the Pacific dropping down for a sampling of intriguing island destinat...
TRAILER: Kon-Tiki
TRAILER for Kon-Tiki - A film by Thor Heyerdahl (B&W) 1951 Academy-Award for Best Documentary. This classic 16mm documentary captures both a sea adventure and a scientific test of ancient sailing techniques. It changed views on where the peoples of p...
Tricky navigation and the most narrow pass ever, into Maupihaa atoll, Ep 34 Hilma Sailing
According to the charts the water around Bora Bora were to shallow for us but we wanted to go to the other side to snorkel so we tried anyway.The tiny passage into Maupihaa was scary! 1 knots one way, 11 knots the other way but we made it and we loved that...
Sailing Extravaganza
Ryan shows how tacking on wind shifts can make a passage so much faster as we dodge squalls sailing upwind between Tahiti and Moorea. Nicole learns how to glide through the water with her new super long free diving fins. We explore the interior side of M...
Swimming with stingrays and sharks at Moorea, Ep 32 Hilma Sailing
We did some work onboard at Tahiti and when Björn came aboard we sailed to Moorea. It was an amazing island with so much to offer. We hiked in the beautiful mountains, went for a coconut hunt, swam with sharks and stingrays and also, we spotted some humpb...
So many sharks in this atoll! Ep 30 Hilma Sailing
Toua is an atoll north of Fakarava and a small piece of heaven, except for the sharks, if you don’t like to swim with them all the time. Our next destination was Tahiti where Lisa turned 30 and we were looking for a good place to leave Hilma during our ...
Proposal at a desert island in the Pacific. Ep 28 Hilma Sailing
We are following the footsteps of Thor Heyerdahl. Raroia is a wonderful place and one of the most beautiful atolls in the world. In other words, the perfect place to propose. We hope you will enjoy it! If you want to support our video production, pleas...